Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, People, Soul

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

• If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Time, Work, Soul

• An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Moon, Echoes, Hair

• For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Soul, Growth, Quarrels

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

• The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Greed, Soul, Lust

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

• We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Soul, Dew, Should

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

• How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Art, Soul, Gallery

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1950). “A Portrait of Logan Pearsall Smith: Drawn from His Letters and Diaries, and Introduced by John Russell”

• What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Wind, Forever, Soul

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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