Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andre Breton

I am the soul in limbo.

Andre Gide

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Ann Rinaldi

There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

Ann Romney

You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

Anais Nin

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

Anais Nin

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

Anne Fadiman

If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone

Andrei Platonov

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Chuck Palahniuk

The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person.That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

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.

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.