Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Patterson

So you have your price. Your soul for a cookie.

James McBride

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.

Novalis

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Novalis

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Emile Zola

My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Emile Zola

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

Ellen G. White

All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.

Ellen G. White

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

Epictetus

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.

Epictetus

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

Epicurus

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

Epicurus

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Epicurus

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Epictetus

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Emily Bronte

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Emily Bronte

...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same...

Emily Bronte

That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul.

Emily Bronte

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...

Emily Dickinson

How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

Emily Dickinson

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

Emily Dickinson

The Soul should always stand ajar.

Emily Dickinson

The Soul selects her own Society.

Hermann Broch

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Hermann Hesse

Your soul is the whole world.

Henry Van Dyke

Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.

Henry Van Dyke

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The soul never grows old.

Henrik Ibsen

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

Henri Nouwen

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Hilary Duff

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

Hilary Duff

Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.