Quote by May Sarton Download Open image ““It is alarming to feel the soul Leap to the surface and find no sheltering wall.”” — May Sarton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“It feels like my soul is slowly leaving my body and heading off to an unknown place, some "safe" place where it doesn't have… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“My walls are falling and my white flag is high, I’ve surrendered to the feeling inside.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“You don't believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“My heart searches for an escape. We're outside, so anywhere will do, but my soul roots her feet in place. I'm not going anywhere.” — Andrea Randall Copy Share Image
“When your soul does not get much warmer nor any lighter, when It is not a place for faint hearted…. then relief is on… — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
“What feels like a wilderness might be the very place your soul starts to breathe.” — Karen Brough Copy Share Image
“Walls Without reflection, without mercy, without shame, they built strong walls and high, and compassed me about. And now I sit here and consider and despair. My brain is worn with meditating on my fate: I had outside so many things to terminate. Oh! why when they were building did I not beware! But never a sound of building, never… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share
“The soul is like a caged bird, it waits for the right person to open the door and set it free.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It doesn't take much in the way of body and mind to be a lookout…It's mostly soul” — Philip Connors quoting Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“This is its ancient soul, the quiet place, away from all its beats and rhythms. And my mind is unable to comprehend the sheer… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton Copy Share Image
