Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

Joaquin Miller

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

Jimi Hendrix

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

Jimi Hendrix

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

Emmanuelle Beart

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

Emma Stone

I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That's what I choose to believe.

Emma Goldman

Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.

John Jewel

The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.

John Hodgman

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

John Henry Newman

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

Ayn Rand

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

Edgar Allan Poe

Lord help my poor soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

Edgar Allan Poe

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Edgar Allan Poe

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.

Edgar Allan Poe

The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

Edgar Allan Poe

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

Elbert Hubbard

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Edvard Munch

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

Havelock Ellis

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

Gladys Knight

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Georgette Heyer

I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance." "I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?

Horace

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

Horace

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

Herman Melville

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.

Herman Melville

You cannot hide the soul.