Quotes About Soul

To realize that who we are is not ours to know, that what we think or feel is always a translation, that what we want is not what we wanted, nor perhaps what anyone wanted – to realize all this at every moment, to feel all this in every feeling – isn't this to be foreign in one's own soul, exiled in one's own sensations?

Who is not revolted by the idea of our soul's carnal origin, of the corporeal turbulence out of which our flesh is born, and which, however beautiful, is soiled by its origin, its birth?

All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are. Our sense of ourselves then becomes a deserted field at nightfall, with sad reeds flanking a boatless river, bright in the darkness growing between the distant shores.

Tanta inconsecuencia en querer bastarme a mí mismo!¡ ¡Tanta conciencia sarcástica de sensaciones imaginadas! Tanto enredo del alma con las sensaciones, de los pensamientos con el aire y el río, para decir que me duele la vida en el olfato en conciencia, para no saber decir, como en la frase sencilla y total del libro de Job, mi alma está cansada de mi vida.

The great anguishes of the soul always come upon us like cosmic cataclysms. When they do, the sun errs from its course and the stars are troubled. A day will come to every feeling soul when Fate stages an apocalypse of anguish, an upturning of all known heavens and universes over the soul's desolation.

Who had uttered these words? They had not frightened me. They were clearly audible to me yet I knew the did not ring out across the air like the chilling cough of the old man in the chair, They came from deep inside me, from my soul. Never before had I believed or suspected that I had a soul but just then I knew I had.

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.

He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which, instant by instant, gives life to the soul. It is a concern with a realization that breeds charity and with the charity that breeds action. Often the nature of grace can be made plain only by describing its absence.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. . . . [Thus] there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

After a while he said, If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.

L'âme humaine est plus complexe et vaste que tout.

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

It's always good to have fears for your eternal soul.

You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.

I can't really stop doing the music because it really feeds me.

There's no feeling like performing. It's magical, it's so rewarding, and it just feeds this special little part of your soul.

I believe in laughter. I believe laughter is good for the soul. I believe in making other people laugh to make them feel good.

I think the soul of Good Charlotte is just feeling good.

There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.

I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

Music is my first love, as it's in my blood.