My Soul Quotes - Page 9

• [T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

  Israel Zangwill

  Book, Soul, Censorship

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.560, Library of Alexandria

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• My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Bird, Soul, Body

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• On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

  Hafez

  Bird, Tree, Soul

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• Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

  Walt Whitman

  Sweet, Horse, Soul

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, III”

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• For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Blood, Boxing

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• Abracadabra, thus we learn
  The more you create, the less you earn.
  The less you earn, the more you're given,
  The less you lead, the more you're driven,
  The more destroyed, the more they feed,
  The more you pay, the more they need,
  The more you earn, the less you keep,
  And now I lay me down to sleep.
  I pray the Lord my soul to take
  If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Soul, Needs

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I read these lines a certain sadness enters my soul. I get so preoccupied with the details and pressure of my schedule, with the hurry and worry of life, that I miss the song of goodness which is waiting to be sung through me.

  Joyce Rupp

  Song, Writing, Sadness

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• When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cities, Community, Soul

  "The Rock". Play by T. S. Eliot, 1934.

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• If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important

  Carl Jung

  Faith, Powerful, Soul

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• I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Distance, Adventure, Wings

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.59, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.

  Albie Sachs

  Moving, Two, Soul

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• My soul is not a palace of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Soul, Palaces

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

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• When my soul steps to exit this frame, I will be reincarnated as rain.

  Eyedea

  Rain, Soul, Exit

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• Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.

  John Keble

  Jesus, Night, Soul

  John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.20

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• I'm down to sell records but not my soul.

  Curtis Jackson

  Soul, Records, Sells

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• I should not dare to call my soul my own.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Freedom, Soul, Should

  Aurora Leigh bk. 2, l. 786 (1857)

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• 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”

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• You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Wind, Forever

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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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 heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Men, Giving

  Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1850). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius”, p.283

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• Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Soul, Logic

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.21, Wildside Press LLC

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• Woe is me!
  The winged words on which my soul would pierce
  Into the heights of love's rare universe,
  Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--
  I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Fire, Woe Is Me

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.230, Univ of California Press

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• I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.

  Wynonna Judd

  Soul, Proud

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• I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Rain, Heart, Sight

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• People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  People, Mad, Soul

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky: 'I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul'". Interview With Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Race, Wings, Soul

  1824 The Journal of Euge'ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948), entry for 4 Jun.

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