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“There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.”

Source: Daniel Deronda

“The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.”

People Thinking World War Soul Causes Consciousness Terrible Impact Harm Drones

Author:Alice Walker

“Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.”

Humans Soul Humanity Christ Atheism Effects Terrible Crosses Weight Burden Positive Atheism Redemption Human Soul Damnation

Book:Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures

“He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.”

Soul Atheism Terrible Positive Atheism Deities Armor Truth And Beauty

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single, Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan-- Holding and having its brief exultation-- Making its lonesome and low lamentation-- Fighting its terrible conflicts alone.”

Men Soul Life Is Fighting Terrible Conflict Lows Men And Women Crowds Dreary Desolation Desolate Lonesome Moaning Lamentation

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.”

Humans Soul Suffering Strange Terrible Sorrow Capable Human Soul Immunity Rest Of Life

Author:Agnes Sligh Turnbull