Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Marlowe

Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

Anselm of Canterbury

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

Anne Boleyn

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

Anne Bishop

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them

Anne Bishop

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

Andrew Cohen

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

Donna Tartt

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

Craig Thompson

You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.

Damian Marley

Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist.

Clive Barker

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

Clint Eastwood

I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.

e. e. cummings

...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return... you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

e. e. cummings

I spill my bright incalculable soul

e. e. cummings

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.

Douglas Horton

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Douglas Coupland

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

Donald Trump

Wacko Glenn Beck is a sad answer to the Sarah Palin endorsement that [Ted] Cruz so desperately wanted. Glenn is a failing, crying, lost soul.

Amy Carmichael

There may be love, understanding love, all around us, and yet we may be needing some word of life in our own soul, something that would do what only the Divine can do. “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.

Amy Carmichael

If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love....

Annette Bening

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it

Annette Bening

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Anne Stevenson

My soul, how will I recognize you if we meet?

Alma Gluck

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

Anne Sexton

I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

Anne Sexton

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

Anne Sexton

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

Anne Rice

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

Anne Rice

Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.

Anne Rice

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

Anne Rice

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

Anne Rice

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

Anita Diament

Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.