A Quote by Maurice Blanchot

To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

Maurice Blanchot

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Maurice Blanchot
French - Writer
September 27, 1907 - February 20, 2003

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart

Tom Waits

We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it’s falling apart because of single moms.

Rick Santorum

See that's where it falls apart for me!" Anne cried. "What sticks in my throat is that God gets the credit but never the blame. I just can't swallow that kind of theological candy. Either God's in charge or he's not.

Mary Doria Russell

War tore my family apart.

Alek Wek

Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."

Frank Sinatra

I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning.

Amy Harmon

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

Mignon McLaughlin

If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying.

Forrest Griffin

Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.

Arthur Guiterman

Seeing the news on 'FOX Sports Live' of yet another baseball player on crutches always reminds me of the September night in 2005 when I tore my Achilles tendon in Toronto.

Gabe Kapler

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.

Julian Beck

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

James Randi

I think that there's absolutely no point trying to force your body to be anything than what it is. I think that when you see people who are really pushing themselves to terrifying lengths to achieve what is perceived as being beautiful today, then that's just terrifying, it's really terrifying.

Keira Knightley

We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.