Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Francis de Sales

Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?

Saint Francis de Sales

The whole world is not worth one soul.

Saint Augustine

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

Saint Augustine

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

Saint Augustine

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

Saint Augustine

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

Saint Augustine

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

Saint Augustine

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Wilson Pickett

Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.

Wim Wenders

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

William Warburton

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

W. Eugene Smith

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

Zora Neale Hurston

Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

Zakk Wylde

I have sold my soul. Just sign right here.

Ziggy Marley

Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

Twyla Tharp

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

William H. Gass

What else is soul but a listener?

William Allingham

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

Wilfrid Sheed

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

Wassily Kandinsky

Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.

Wassily Kandinsky

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

Voltaire

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Voltaire

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Voltaire

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

Voltaire

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

Voltaire

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

William Ralph Inge

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

William Booth

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

William Booth

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

William Booth

Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.

William C. Bryant

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

William C. Bryant

Features, the great soul's apparent seat.