My Soul Quotes - Page 39

• i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.

  David Levithan

  Flirty, Phones, Soul

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• Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Silly, Heart, Character

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Soul, Curious, Wanted

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.599, Delphi Classics

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• She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

  Jack Kerouac

  Soul, Firsts, Lips

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.17, BookBaby

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• I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers. I tremble for Western Christians who don't help their persecuted brethren. In the depth of my heart, I would like to keep the beauty of my own vineyard and not be involved in such a huge fight. I would like so much to be somewhere in quietness and rest. But it is not possible... The quietness and rest for which I long would be an escape from reality and dangerous for my soul... The West sleeps and must be awakened to see the plight of the captive nations.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Heart, Sleep

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• Sea does the sweep of his eyes that he does, the one that goes from my head to my toes and back again and makes me feel that he's scanning the depths of my soul and teasing out my motivations and sins. It's worse than confession with Father Mooneyham. At the end of it, he says, "If you help, this will go faster.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Motivation, Father, Eye

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• I want you to know that should something happen to me, don’t worry about my body. My soul isn’t going to return to it, nor to God. It’s flying straight to you, where it knows it can find you, in Lazarevo. I want to be neither with kings nor heroes, but with the queen of Lake Ilmen.

  Paullina Simons

  Kings, Queens, Hero

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• I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I’ve known you for a short time, but I feel like I’ve known you forever

  J.A. Redmerski

  Real, Past, Thinking

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• Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Running, Soul, Wonder

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• You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Blood, Missing, Soul

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• As I stepped out to face myself in the mirror, reaching a hand to smooth away the steam, I saw myself differently. It was as if I had grown again as I slept, but this time just to fit my own size. As if my soul had expanded, filling out the gaps of the height that had burdened me all these months. Like a balloon filling slowly with air, becoming all smooth and buoyant, I felt like I finally fit within myself, edge to edge, every crevice filled.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mirrors, Air, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.171, Penguin

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• Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Soul, Storm, Tangible

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.496, Faber & Faber

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• Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.

  Rumi

  Soul, Limits, Saws

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• My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

  Sara Teasdale

  Pain, Broken, Soul

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• What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Fall, Color

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Prayer, Night

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo

  Tite Kubo

  Soul, Lost, Sock

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• Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sunset, Rainbow, Soul

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• I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope

  Sarah Kane

  Loss, Kissing, Years

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.218, A&C Black

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• Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Procrastination, Fighting, Exercise

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.122, Random House

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• I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Thinking, Guy, Soul

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• Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sadness, Soul, Bees

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• My soul may be returned to the heavens but my heart will remain with you for all eternity.

  Richard Dominguez

  Romantic, Heart, Romance

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• For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Blessing, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.228, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Courage, Adversity, Humility

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