Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Ripley

The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.

George Orwell

The belly comes before the soul.

Gene Simmons

I have sold my soul to the devil.

Garth Stein

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

Frederick Douglass

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

Frank Warren

Dear soulmate, I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction.

George Eliot

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

Fernando Pessoa

I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.

Fernando Pessoa

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

Fernando Pessoa

My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.

Fernando Pessoa

The human soul is an abyss

Fernando Pessoa

I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

Fernando Pessoa

Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

Felix Mendelssohn

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Faye Dunaway

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

Fanny Kemble

Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

Faith Prince

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

Faith Popcorn

It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.

Euripides

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

Euripides

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Euripides

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them....

Francis of Assisi

Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

Francis Asbury

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

Erwin McManus

This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

Erykah Badu

I grew up listening to old soul

Ernest Holmes

No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.

Ernest Holmes

Since each soul is some part of the Whole, it is impossible that any soul can be lost.

Ernest Holmes

To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate

Florence Welch

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

Henry Martyn

My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.

Henry Miller

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

Henry Miller

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

Henri Frederic Amiel

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE