Inmost Quotes
79 Inmost quotes by 69 unique authors
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There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned…
— Robert Browning
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From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.…
— Bertrand Russell
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nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so…
— Ted Hughes
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Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is…
— H.G. Wells
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If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.…
— Oliver Sacks
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We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the…
— Karl Popper
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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
— John Fowles
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When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.
— Cassandra Clare
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Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air…
— Karl Rahner
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I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
— Meister Eckhart
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She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by…
— Guy de Maupassant
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The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it —…
— Saul Bellow
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Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt…
— Franz Kafka
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The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
— Dodie Smith
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A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and…
— Gary Zukav
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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour…
— Kahlil Gibran
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For nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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If you feel sad and depressed. Call on the name of God and the joy of the Lord will be your strength to carry on.…
— Sunita Penny
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