Quotes About Soul

it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

From those great eyesThe soul has fled:When faith is lost, when honor dies,The man is dead!

The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

O Cisne Foi em abril, eu me lembro, embora em meu espírito fosse dezembro, Que um pássaro ferido foi retirado da escuridão do lago, As penas brancas brilharam ao sol, e de sua boca escorreu a água negra, Enquanto por dentro minha voz gritava até pensar que meu coração iria se partir; Fui eu quem assistiu à sua morte, seguindo à deriva, à deriva, esperando em sua vigília Que Deus levasse sua alma.

The silence inside was familiar from all the years of mourning, a large house with parts of its soul carved away.

The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control and succumbing to physical limits in life are arbitrary acts of self-loathing. All human beings have bodies that define their existence and which can veto the best-laid plans of the mind and soul.

The human soul knows that growth is the only reason for its existence. [Hopkins quoting S. Bellow]

you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes

you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul

my soul has shadows – nooks and crannies where griefs, like cobwebs, collect

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these two means, man can attain perfection. —Plato

Perhaps—the insight came suddenly—perhaps love existed in its truest, deepest form when one partner saw into the soul of the other and never shrank from what was discovered there.

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

Los sueños eran acertijos inconscientes e importantes que reflejaban el alma.

Revenge serves to cleanse the heart and soul. It has been around since the first caveman climbed down out of a tree and bashed his brother over the head for some slight of honor.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Bards of Passion and of Mirth,Ye have left your souls on earth!Have ye souls in heaven too,Double-lived in regions new?

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

Their own souls rose and cried Alarum when they heard the sudden wail Of stricken freedom and along the gale Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.