Lucy Maud Montgomery Soul Quotations

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant…

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.