The Soul Quotes

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.

There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

Sometimes the biggest enemy you have is down deep in your own soul.

I truly love being an actor. I love it with all my heart and soul, and I hope that I get to do it for a very long time.

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

Who we shall become we are already in our souls.

The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed; New states, new souls.

No matter what walk of life you're from, you can appreciate the music - songs [can] resonate in your soul and your heart.

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.

I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.

People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.

Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

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.

America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.

The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous.

I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul.

I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.