Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles M. Blow

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

Beverley Nichols

The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.

Edith Stein

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be...

Edith Stein

The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

Edmond Rostand

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

Edith Sitwell

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Edith Wharton

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

Edith Wharton

We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

David Drake

Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…

David Brainerd

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

David Brooks

We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.

Audre Lorde

Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.

Arthur Rimbaud

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

Arthur Rimbaud

I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

Arthur Rimbaud

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

Antonio Tabucchi

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

Antonin Artaud

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

Antonin Artaud

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

Laini Taylor

Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.

Lewis Carroll

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

William Shakespeare

I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?

William Shakespeare

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

William Shakespeare

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

What he took from me was nothing, because he can't take my spirit, he can't take my soul. My soul is New Orleans.

Bruno Schulz

Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.

Bruno Schulz

So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament.

Caspar Weinberger

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

Carl Jung

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.

Carl Jung

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

Carl Jung

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Carl Jung

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

Joseph Lowery

would do a lot for his soul and his salvation.

Bill Nighy

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.