Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

Frederick William Robertson

You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.

Franz Kafka

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Franz Kafka

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives...

Franz Kafka

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

Erich Fromm

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Erica Jong

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

Erica Jong

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Erica Jong

Conflict is the soul of literature.

Erica Jong

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

Eminem

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

Jasper Fforde

The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.

Hannah More

The soul on earth is an immortal guest.

Ben Bradlee

I don't think I said it. I know who his source is, and I don't want to get into it. ... I have not told a soul who it is.

Jack Canfield

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

J. G. Ballard

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

Ivo Andric

~beautiful soul weeps deep~

Irving Layton

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

Jack Kerouac

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

Jack Kerouac

She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

Sabeer Bhatia

I think the soul of an entrepreneur is to keep trying until you find the successful idea.

Lord Byron

That all-softening, overpowering knell, / The tocsin of the soul - the dinner-bell.

Anne Bronte

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.

Barry Lopez

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

B. R. Ambedkar

Neither god nor soul can save society.

Bijou Phillips

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

Bhagat Singh

The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march

C. S. Lewis

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.