The Soul Quotes

When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

I think so much of the look, obviously including wardrobe, but the hair is a huge thing because it's basically the frame for your eyes and that's the window to your soul is what they say.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.

A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself.

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.

The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

The soul paints itself in our machines.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

How precious are the souls of men!

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

Lastly, waging war against good people is bad for the soul. This may not seem important to you now, but it's the most important thing I've said.

The despairing soul is a rebel.

I am passionate about making music that feeds the soul and brings people together.

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!