But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived. —Philip Ó Ceallaigh More about this quote Tags: soul sanity violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All writing, even the clumsy kind, exposes in its loops and slants a yearning deeper than an intention, the soul of the writer flopping on the clothes-peg of his exclamation mark. —Paul Theroux More about this quote Tags: writing soul yearning intention Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. —Plato More about this quote Tags: soul disease body doctors treatment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. —Joseph Addison More about this quote Tags: education soul art sculpture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed. —Jodi Picoult in Mercy More about this quote Tags: love soul heart theft Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. —Torquato Tasso More about this quote Tags: love soul completeness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. —Anne Sexton More about this quote Tags: empathy soul listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. —Eugene V. Debs More about this quote Tags: kinship living soul prison men class better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is the beauty of the soul. —Saint Augustine More about this quote Tags: love beauty soul Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. —Alfred Lord Tennyson More about this quote Tags: words soul nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. —Henri Matisse More about this quote Tags: soul art impressionism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. —Emily Bronte More about this quote Tags: love soul soulmates Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. —Iris Murdoch More about this quote Tags: soul gods art cunning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Imagination is the eye of the soul. —Joseph Joubert More about this quote Tags: imagination vision soul Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: soul body voice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email