Souls

Famous quotes containing the word souls:

    Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality.... Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)