Soul Quotes
The eyes are the window of the soul.English Prove
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
Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.William Shakespeare
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.Marquis de Sade
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.Lord Byron
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
What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?Anne Frank
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.Rebecca West
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.Alexandra Stoddard, Gracious Living in a New World
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.Socrates, In "Phaedo, " sct. 98, by Plato.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.Omar Khayym
The will to do, the soul to dare.Sir Walter Scott
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.Thomas Traherne
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.Louise Erdrich
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivanada
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.Nora Roberts
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.Frederick William Fabe
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
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
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.Pamela Vaull Sta
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
Conscience is the voice of the soul.Polish Prove
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
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
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.Pindar, 518 - 438 B. C.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.Virgil
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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