Soul Quotes

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want.

Sigmund Freud

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana

Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.

Amanda Medinge

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

Helen Luke

What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace.

William Gurnall

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Pythagoras

A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul.

Elizabeth Grymeston

Music is the soul of language.

Max Heindel

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

E. H. Chapin

Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.

Publilius Syrus

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.

Josh Billings

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

George Meredith

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.

Lester Bowles Pearson

Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Erich Fromm

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.

Dwight Lyman Moody

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

John Donne

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato, The Republic

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

Fredrich Halm

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Alain

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain, inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.

Alexandra Stoddard, Gracious Living in a New World

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

John Fletcher, 1647

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Pinda

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Publilius Syrus

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Paxton Hood

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello