Quotes with soul-wasting

Quotes 181 till 200 of 549.

  • Umberto Eco I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.
    (2015)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Anne Rice I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Georges Bernanos I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Eugène Delacroix 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.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Victor Hugo I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • T. S. Eliot I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jim Morrison I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important times.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Ansel Adams I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Burning Spear I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Socrates I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Woody Allen I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Luigi Pirandello I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Booker T. Washington I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Up From Slavery (1901)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • J. G. Ballard I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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