My Soul Quotes

Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?

I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.

Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses.

The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

I cannot love a soul so dark it eats up others' light

In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I grew up listening mostly to R&B and soul and jazz.

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.

Excellence nourishes the soul.

Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about the readers at that moment of writing.

Love is the reality of the soul.

Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her.

A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.

I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Souls and bodies should go on together.

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.

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

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

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.

My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .