Edward John Trelawny Quotes

In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon.

Edward John Trelawny

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• Atrocity
• Refreshment

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• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
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• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Soul

• The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Talk

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
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  • Soul
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• A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

  

  Harriet Martineau
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• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Beauty
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• My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Soul
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• The soul is subject to dollars.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Soul

• Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Why
  • Soul

• Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Men
  • Soul

• She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • May
  • She
  • Soul

• The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issues not from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Desire

• May they not forget to keep pure the great heritage that puts them ahead of the West: the artistic configuration of life, the simplicity and modesty of personal needs, and the purity and serenity of the Japanese soul.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Forget

• Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Psychology

• I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.

  

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Long
  • Soul
  • Free

• The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Soul

• I want to do what I feel in my soul. My soul won't lead me wrong.

  

  Ciara
  • Soul

• 'In the short time I've known you, Richard, I've noticed you possess a lamentable tendency to put on shining armor and look for ladies to rescue. King Arthur, God rest his soul, would have loved you. He'd have had you fighting every evil knight in the forest.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Moral
  • Greatness

• 'Ravenna' is, in many ways, the ultimate example of how a woman's perception of herself can lead to this horrible road being taken.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Taken
  • Road
  • Perception

• Now you are finally with me, you are safe now. Don't be afraid of anything. You don't have to worry anymore.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Worry

• There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Sun

• In this hard struggle I had little refreshment but from the fountains of my own soul. Had I not clung to myself, the atrocity of others had made me a demon.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Soul
  • Atrocity
  • Refreshment