Soul Quotes - page 3

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. (W. Somerset Maugham)
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Distance is the soul of beauty. View quote
Simone Weil
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. View quote
Neil Armstrong
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. View quote
Robert Benchley
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. (Hermann Hesse)
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. View quote
Anatole France
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. View quote
Eric Hoffer
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it - they also believed the world was flat. View quote
Mark Twain
Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul. (Margaret Thatcher)
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' View quote
Sigmund Freud
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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