Soul Quotes

George bancroft - beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite....
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
William shakespeare - a wretched soul, bruised with adversity, we bid...
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Victor hugo - certain thoughts are prayers. there are moments...
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
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
Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.
Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Anatol Rapoport
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
The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
G. K. Chesterton
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
Johannes Meister Eckhart
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
Sir Francis Bacon
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.
Akhenaton
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Mille
A person without character is just as body without soul.
Ranjan
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. Murray
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Henry Van Dyke
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato, The Republic
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Albert Einstein
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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 fates have given mankind a patient soul.
Homer, The Iliad
Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.
Pablo Picasso