#soul

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#last #modest #people #privacy #refuge

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. ↗

— John Donne

#creature #eyes #god #himself #his

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no. ↗

— John Donne

#breath #friends #go #goes #men

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#i #inspired #my soul #rocks #something

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#get #i #into #my own #own

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. ↗

— Will Durant

#desire #eye #knowledge #pilot #soul

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#april #exactly #felt #found #had

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul. ↗

— Anne Boleyn

#god #i #lord #me #mercy

I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands. ↗

— Karin Boye

#hands #hate #i #mine #other