The Soul Quotes

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.

A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in spite of them. Afflictions be praised!

Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside is mute.

Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.

The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.

As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.

Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love be your Interpreter.

How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?

There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.

It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.

A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.

I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls.

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.