Top 25 Soul Crushed Quotes
#1. Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.
Gloria Steinem
#2. Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.
Rebecca Skloot
#3. Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.
Haruki Murakami
#4. I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.
Eve Arnold
#5. Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again and again.
Mary Gaitskill
#6. My melon soul
Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy
David Wong
#7. You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.
Donald Whitney
#8. But this pleasure was not unalloyed with pain, and it seemed as if the universal joy of the awakening world could now only impart a delight which was half sorrow to her grief-crushed soul and withered heart.
Guy De Maupassant
#9. She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy
Keith Urban
#10. Some things take care of themselves....like snow & adolescence.
Unknown
#11. In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.
Jonathan Raban
#12. The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.
Anson Mount
#13. are less confident in a choice when they are asked to produce more arguments to support it
Daniel Kahneman
#14. The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand: Thy right hand has upheld me.
A.W. Tozer
#15. There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.
John S. Hall
#17. Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.
Sigmund Freud
#18. I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.
Drake Bell
#19. She told me that while my father's body might be crushed under tons of black earth, the body is nothing but camouflage. She whispered that every soul is a river trying to find its way back to the sea.
Simon Van Booy
#20. I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.
Jodie Sweetin
#21. She always,
She always wanted to express herself but no one cared,
So she stopped,
She was crushed,
Stiff & lifeless,
Like everything else.
Truth Devour
#22. When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#23. Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!
Eric Thomas
#24. What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot.
Scott Adsit
#25. It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.
Mary Abigail Dodge