Quotes tagged ‘Soul’

(291 total)

“I’ll never fall in love again… it’s like having two souls at the same time.”

“Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. It oozes out of me like a broken tube of toothpaste; it doesn’t want to stay within the confines of my body. A strange feeling of weight and volume. Soul volume perhaps, which rises like clouds of smoke and envelops my body.”

— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

— Zora Neale Hurston, amazon.com

“Rick: Have you acquired creepy specific old stuff from a mysterious antique or thrift store that gives you powers, but fucks with you in unforeseeable ways? Bring it to 'Curse Purge Plus'! I-I use science to un-curse the items for cash, and you get to keep the powers. This guy got mysterious sneaker…”

— Mike McMahan, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com

“If we reverse the outer shell and the essence—in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell—our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“A solitary soul straying by an absurd shore.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Truth is, people will never recognize what has changed within you, what makes you tick, what sets your heart and soul on fire, or what causes a rage within your bloodstream, unless they yearn to understand your soul.”

— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, thoughtcatalog.com

“It is that power that is within you, by means of which you move and attain liberation. It is the soul, but what is it when you have placed the soul underneath your arm?”

— Shams Tabrizi, sufism.org

“The soul of the world is mortally sick, its courage broken, its ideals tarnished, and the will to live gone; the horizon is hazy, hidden behind burning clouds of destruction, and faith in the dawn of mankind is no more.”

— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org

“Visions of ineffable beauty and harmony, health and exhilaration of body and soul, and grand foundation lessons in Nature's eternal love are the sure reward of every earnest looker in this glorious wilderness.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“I won't watch it happen—that even one bit of putrefaction comes in contact with us, or takes root in us. On the contrary, where it might try to take root, we will burn it out together. Altogether, however, we can say, that we have fulfilled this most difficult duty for the love of our people. And ou…”

— Heinrich Himmler, historyplace.com

“No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

“It is significant, for example, that the moment when churchmen began to doubt the existence of the black man’s soul was the same moment the black man’s body was fetching high prices in the marketplace for their mercantilist cousins and parishioners.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”

— Alexander Pope, gutenberg.org

“When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.”

— Donald L. Hicks, amazon.com

“Technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that makes our hearts sing.”

— Steve Jobs, newyorker.com

“And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.”

— Eric Clapton, esquire.com

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Dear Diary, my soul plumbs new depths of despair. I long for the quiet of the farm. The warmth of my bed, the smell of flowers outside my window. I'm surrounded by a cesspool of activity. No words can do justice to the depravity that permeates the grounds.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Dot Tattler, Sarah Paulson, imdb.com