Quotes with soul-wasting

Quotes 61 till 80 of 549.

  • George Bernard Shaw An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Traherne An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bob Dylan And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
    To the old folks home and the college
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Angela Carter Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Evelyn Waugh Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Iris Murdoch Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Bill Viola Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Brad Feld As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Albert J. Nock Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Mark Twain Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • A. E. Housman Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
    Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 48, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Bancroft Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Wayne Dyer Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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