“Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.”

Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939

The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: I will not accept boundaries; appearances cannot contain me; I choke! To bleed in this agony, and to live it profoundly, is the second duty.
The mind is patient and adjusts itself, it likes to play; but the heart grows savage and will not condescend to play; it stifles and rushes to tear apart the nets of necessity.

Source: For One More Day

Source: All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

Open Your Heart
Imagine Our Love (2007)

AV Club interview http://www.avclub.com/article/stephen-colbert-13970, (25 January 2006)
Context: Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?

Writing in Saturday Review (23 October 1971), p. 16
1970s

Arrancamos a la vida la vida, para con ella, verla.
Voces (1943)

Source: Confessions of an Heiress (2004), p. 53