The Soul Quotes

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.

I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.

Stark times remind our souls that things do not matter...people do.

Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds, But here the thing's best left at home with friends.

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

I loved Harry Truman with all my heart and soul.

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.

For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.

The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.

Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead

There is only one romance the Soul's.

If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.

Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God.

If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.

But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.

Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!

By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.