Irving Stone Quotes

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

Only the soul knows what love is.

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

The best gift you can give someone is a part of your soul.

Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.

She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.

Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real.

Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.

I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

I know you even under the skin.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Oh, me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to And when it's twelve o'clock we climb the stairs We never knock 'cause nobody's there Just me and my shadow All alone and feeling blue

I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.