Soul Quotes

William ernest henley, from the poem
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?
William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii
Booker t. washington - i will permit no man to narrow and degrade my...
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Henry Fielding
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.
Thomas Fulle
Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
Erich Fromm
Ayn rand, atlas shrugged - do not let your fire go out, spark by...
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Bette Davis
The eyes are the window of the soul.
English Prove
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Martha Graham
We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.
John Owen
If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.
Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles
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
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
William Shakespeare
If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.
Dax Ward
The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit.
Heinrich Heine
If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Henry Vaughn
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
Napolean Hill
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
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickenson
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.
Sir Thomas More
The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreise
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
Victor Hugo
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
William Shakespeare
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
William Shakespeare
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
Kahlil Gibran
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - And the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo