My Soul Quotes - Page 30

• ...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

  Ernest Gaines

  Heart, Soul, May

  Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Soul, Cards

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

  Herman Melville

  Depression, Strong, Hands

  Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications

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• Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched on a beach Where the sea hates to go With a child in my arms And a chill in my soul And my heart the shape Of a begging bowl

  Leonard Cohen

  Beach, Children, Hate

  Song: Undertow, Album: Dear Heather, 2004

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• Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

  Anne Rice

  Soul, States, Knows

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• (...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

  Marlon Brando

  Soul, Knees, Scar

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• Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

  Libba Bray

  Soul, Tonight, Woods

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.290, Delacorte Press

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• Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

  Christopher Marlowe

  Soul, Comfort, Kingdoms

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• By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Soul, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.205

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• My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cat, Soul, Fur

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.27, Dial Press

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• People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

  Don DeLillo

  Children, Night, Thinking

  Don DeLillo (2004). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Children, Distance

  "The Book of Disquiet".

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• O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

  Pindar

  Soul, Limits, Immortal Life

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• What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul.

  Cassandra Clare

  Coffee, Soul, Black

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.

  Rumi

  Spring, Water, Soul

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• I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.

  Richelle Mead

  Soul, Pieces, Cry

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.230, Penguin

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• You are my heart as it beats within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Moving, Heart, Essence

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• Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin

  Walter Dean Myers

  Mother, Song, Sweet

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• I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Heart, Soul

  Song: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Revenge, Ideas, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.848, Library of America

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• There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

  Jonathan Larson

  Regret, Destiny, Past

  "Rent". Musical by Jonathan Larson, 1996.

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• I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorite. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, "well done," and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore. Finally he'll turn and we'll walk toward the city, a city he will have spoken into existence a city built in a place where once there'd been nothing.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Cities, Laughing

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• A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

  Leonard Cohen

  Soul, Chaos, Burden

  Song: Paper Thin Hotel, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

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• I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Soul, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2013). “Going Postal: Stage Adaptation”, p.15, A&C Black

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