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Soul Quotes by James Joyce
- When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
- A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power…
- Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
- Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her…
- The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances…
- My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
- Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the…
- All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light...
- Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being…
- For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.
- What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
- Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature;…
- Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships…
- His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon…
- I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there…
- You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess…
- Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him…
- Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer…
More Soul Quotes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt