Torn In Between Quotes

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. — E.B. White

I stared at him, torn between wanting to laugh and to punch him in the face — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I'm torn between wanting the absolute best for my daughter and being jealous that she has it so much better than I ever did. — Jill Smokler

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office. — John F. Kennedy

People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know. — Lawrence Thornton

I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences. — Ian Goldin

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude. — Bill Bryson

She hesitated, torn between excitement and terror, amazed that she was actually considering it. — Nicholas Sparks

Brave, stupid girl, Thorne muttered. He sank back down to the floor, his expression torn between relief and increased distress. — Marissa Meyer

...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution. — Louis Althusser

Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I felt torn
Between living and dying
Between sleeping and surviving. — Stacy Morris

There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created — Cristina Henriquez

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out. — Charlotte Eriksson

We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope. — Rene Char

You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer. — Martina Boone

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither. — Diana Gabaldon

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. — Carl Sandburg

I'm torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy. — Charles M. Schulz

She would've been torn between acting cool and nonchalant and wanting to geek out over the experience. — Hugh Howey

I was torn between anger and amusement. — Ashley Gardner

Again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering. — Italo Calvino

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way. — Claire Messud

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints. — Sara Sheridan

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential - I was torn between the two. — Karen Joy Fowler

Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary. — Colum McCann

[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one. — Cathy Guisewite

I'm torn between none of your business and kiss my ass. — Elle Todd

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. — Katherine Dunn

My heart ached inside me, torn between wanting to stop and wishing the would go on forever — Maggie Stiefvater

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn between bitterness and hope — Adrienne Rich

It may have been my youth that forged my heart but it is my adulthood that defines me now." ~quote by Roe'vaash in "Then'diel's HEART — K. Farrell St. Germain

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. — Francoise Sagan

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. — David Levithan

Nobody knew what it was like to be torn between what it meant to be human and what it meant to be Pack better than me. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

That strange, twisted, torn love.
That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right. — David Levithan