Outer Quotes
632 quotes by 452 authors
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The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer…
— Thomas Merton
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One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what…
— Craig Silvey
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Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was…
— Hermann Hesse
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Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from…
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to…
— Deepak Chopra
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I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and…
— Yukio Mishima
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Jordan doesn't really care about the blood," Simon said now. "His whole thing is about me being comfortable with what I am. Get in touch…
— Cassandra Clare
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Is your inner vampire different from your...outer vampire?" "Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora." "So your inner vampire is Magnus?
— Cassandra Clare
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That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest…
— Herman Melville
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The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free access to our soul, we will…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For…
— Marianne Williamson
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From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.
— Ray Bradbury
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The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.
— Ernest Cline
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Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.
— Paulo Coelho
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The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see…
— Pema Chodron
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Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.
— Paulo Coelho
Who Wrote These Outer Quotes
452 authors contributed a total of 632 Outer Quotes, led by these top contributors: