Soul Quotes

Henry van dyke - self is the only prison that can bind the soul....
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William shakespeare - a wretched soul, bruised with adversity, we bid...
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Oscar wilde - ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches...
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
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Bible, Mark 8: 36
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
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
They say dreams are the windows of the soul - - Take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
James Joseph Sylveste
It is with narrow - Souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Alexander Pope
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
Plato, The Republic
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul.
Elizabeth Grymeston
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
Napolean Hill
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.
Joseph Addison
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - It is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Peter De Vries
Live a life as a monument to your soul.
Ayn Rand
Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.
Kahlil Gibran
Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved - - It is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world.
Cornelius Stam
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Jacques Prvert
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
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana
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
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)
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D. H. Lawrence
I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.
Voltaire
Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.
Amanda Medinge
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.
Dwight Lyman Moody
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.
Unknown
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.
Virginia Woolf
A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero