My Soul Quotes

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind

Take Christ out of the gospel, and you take its very heart out. He has not only originated a system, but He has put Himself into it, as its very life and soul and power.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.

I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

All we are is in the soul.

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

The eye is inlet to the soul.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.

Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.

A peaceful soul haunts the warring mind.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

A poet is a painter of the soul.

That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower, Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour.

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

There are no twin souls in God's universe.

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils.

Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.

Im really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.

John Matthew was her well of soul, as the symphaths called it,or her pyrocant, to the vampires. Her essential weakness.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.

...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.

The city has a face, the country a soul.