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Quotes About Soul

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Aber ich habe sie gehabt, ich habe das Herz gefühlt, die große Seele, in deren Gegenwart ich mir schien mehr zu sein, als ich war, weil ich alles war, was ich sein konnte.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Listen to that lovely music, Better than mythology! Your gods, elderly and antique, Give them up, they're now passé. Those old tales have lost all meaning, We aim at a higher goal: From the soul must come the feeling That can move another's soul.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Duas almas, oh! moram dentro do meu peito, E aí lutam por um indivisível reino; Uma aspira pela terra, com vontade apaixonada Às íntimas entranhas ainda está ligada. Acima das névoas, a outro aspira, de certeza, Com ardor sagrado por esferas onde reine a pureza
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let it go out, the sun's fire, If light dawns inside our souls, In our own hearts we'll discover What the outer world withholds.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For in music there is no material to be deducted.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A vast dawning entirety lies before the soul, our senses lose themselves in it as do our eyes and oh! we long to make the oblation of all our being and to be filled utterly with the bliss of a single large and glorious feeling.—And oh! when we hurry after it, when There becomes Here, all is as it was and we stand in our poverty, in our narrowness, and the soul in us parches for the elusive freshening.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You're growling, poodle! Animal squealings 1230 Hardly suit the exalted feelings Filling my soul to overflowing. We're used to people ridiculing What they hardly understand, Grumbling at the good and the beautiful— It makes them so uncomfortable! Do dogs now emulate mankind?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
~ John Tillotson
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
~ John Updike
Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.
~ Juliette Adam
Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.
~ Mark Hoppus
If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
The blues is life itself.
~ Billy Gibbons
Poetry is a necessity of life.
~ C.D. Wright
What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
~ Hippocrates
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.
~ Horace
At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.
~ Immanuel Kant
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.
~ Joel-Peter Witkin
Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.
~ John Ashbery
I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
~ William Shakespeare