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Quotes About Souls

What!" said he. "Do you not know that there are souls constantly tormented? They need by turns to dream and to act, the purest passions and the most turbulent joys, and thus they fling themselves into all sorts of fantasies, of follies.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Les âmes des morts, disait-il, se résolvent dans la lune comme les cadavres dans la terre. Leurs larmes composent son humidité: c'est un séjour obscur plein de fange, de débris et de tempêtes.
~ Gustave Flaubert
tolérance est le plus sûr moyen d'attirer les âmes à la religion.
~ Gustave Flaubert
perhaps, also this short embrace may infuse in their veins a little of this thrill which they would not have known without it, and will give to those two dead souls, brought to life in a second, the rapid and divine sensation of this intoxication, of this madness which gives to lovers more happiness in an instant than other men can gather during a whole lifetime.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Hay zonas sombrías en los alrededores de nuestros senderos cotidianos, y cada tanto un alma maldita abre un portal en ellas para acercarse a nosotros. Cuando eso ocurre, el hombre que lo presencia debe atacar antes de que se desaten terribles consecuencias
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Replicas never have the ghosts. They're bodies without souls.
~ Harlan Coben
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
~ William Butler Yeats
Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.
~ Patti Callahan Henry
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
~ Horace
The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.
~ Haruki Murakami
They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?
~ Rudyard Kipling
Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.
~ Virginia Woolf
Dear friends, I warn you as "temporary residents and foreigners" to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. 1 PETER 2:11 NLT2
~ Sheri Rose Shepherd
Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh.
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
Tempted to put too much faith in the great male mind, remember this: It looked at cats and declared them gods. It looked at women and asked, Are they human? And, once that nut had been cracked: But do they have souls?
~ Sigrid Nunez
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter
Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.
~ William Shakespeare
I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.
~ Ram Dass
Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.
~ Heinrich Heine
Do you read much, George?" Albert asked. "No," George replied. "You should, you should. Reading is one of the great pleasures of life—maybe the greatest." "You must never have had a Cuban cigar." Albert Ellingham laughed. "It's true. All the money, all the power—none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds. The world is a door. Books are the key.
~ Maureen Johnson
He saw three ugly natures, three small, cruel souls.
~ Max Brand
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.
~ Max Brooks