„Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.“

— Jane Austen

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„Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.“
— Virginia Woolf
„This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.“
— Franz Kafka
„Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.“
— George Orwell
„To conceive a thought — just one, but one that would tear the universe to pieces.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„You left me drowning in my tears“
— Jon Bon Jovi
„You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.“
— Cassandra Clare
„When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.“
— Haruki Murakami
„I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.My business is to tear them apart.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.“
— Paulo Coelho