“The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Northcote, 487
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven
“The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Northcote, 487
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
“I remembered you with my soul clenched”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“Alas, alas! another day gone by,
Another day and no soul come”
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land
Context: "Alas, alas! another day gone by,
Another day and no soul come," she said;
"Another year, and still I am not dead!"
And with that word once more her head she raised,
And on the trembling man with great eyes gazed.
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
Diary (11 August 1890)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
“Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.”
Edna O'Brien (1930) Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short story writer
Interviewed in Vogue, April 1985
S. H. Raza (1922–2016) Indian artist
Quoted by Art connoisseur Sangeeta Chopra in "This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza}.
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 7