"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Soul, Humanity

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"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."

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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The divinity of the soul; life, light and love."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I committed a cardinal sin by starving my soul while allowing mind to have a feast!"

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"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."

Life

"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."

Nature

"Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me: but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations. It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows."

Despair

"I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated."

Ambition

"Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded-a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures."

Ethics

"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.- The Evil Eye."

Anxiety

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

Change

"Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart."

Faith

"I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed."

Emotion

"My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie...."

Imagination