Quotes About Souls

Skip had loved that lighthouse—and all it symbolized. Light in the darkness. Guidance through turbulent waters. Salvation for the floundering. Hope for lost souls.

They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition.

Victor did not see death as an irremediable separation. He imagined his wife traveling ahead through sidereal space, where perhaps the souls of the dead ended up, while he was waiting his turn to join her, more curious than concerned. He would be there with his brother

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Cathedrals, Luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

You always obey him? (Medea)If I didn't want to live, I'd stop taking human souls and expire. It would be a lot less painful than crossing Stryker. (Devyn)

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

but this is why I have come to believe that books have souls—why else would I be so reluctant to throw one away? It doesn't matter that I know I'm throwing away a bound, printed block of paper that is easily reproduced. It doesn't feel like that.

In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn't understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual's consciousness is a collection of memories we've cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived.

I have come to believe that books have souls—why else would I be so reluctant to throw one away?

But we see also many souls whose light is only a dim spark because they are still slumbering in the delusion of separation.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

I am and have been the reaper of wayward souls for a long time.

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.