Famous Quotes & Sayings

Omar Khayyam

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell

Olga Korbut

Its better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

Olive Schreiner

Soul, what have I to do with you?

Octavia Butler

Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?

Octavio Paz

Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

Ntozake Shange

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

Merle Travis

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

Masashi Kishimoto

A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive. --Gaara

Mason Cooley

The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

Mason Cooley

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Michael Franti

If you love the planet or the neighborhood - you're finding ways to satisfy the soul of the planet or satisfy the soul of the neighborhood.

Michael Connelly

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

Michael Chabon

He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.

Melody Beattie

... I've learned that I have many, many soul mates here, and they come to me at the right time and in the right place. They come to help me when I'm lost, and each comes with different sets of lessons for me -- usually, always, my most intense lessons -- the ones my soul came here to learn.

Michel Foucault

The soul is the prison of the body.

Theodore Parker

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.

Theodore Roethke

The soul has many motions, body one.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Malcolm X

You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

Mahatma Gandhi

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

Mahatma Gandhi

The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

Mahatma Gandhi

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Mahatma Gandhi

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

Mahatma Gandhi

By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

Temple going is for the purification of the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

John C. Maxwell

Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

James Larkin

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.