Quotes About Soul

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. —Henry Van Dyke

And on God's palette are the colors of the world, and one of those colors is black. So I will not fear the darkness, for it is of God's making as death is another part of his grand design. My soul will walk in the darkness and shadows and marvel at the night sky. Death is but a journey back to the canvas of my God. —Requiem

What she tells the Japanese is this lost opportunity which has made her what she is. The story she tells of this lost opportunity literally transports her outside herself and carries her toward this new man. To give oneself, body and soul, that's it.

Reason: Ah, Love, says Reason, when are such Souls in the true freedom of Pure Love? Love: When they have no longing, no feeling, and at no time any affection of the spirit; for such customs would enslave them, being too far away from the peace of freedom in which few men permit themselves to dwell. And also they do nothing, says Love, which is opposed to the peace of their inner being, and so in peace they bear the orders of Love.

The short and obscene sentence of Poseidonius about the rubbing together of two small pieces of flesh, which I have seen you copy in your exercise books with the application of a good schoolboy, does no more to define the phenomenon of love than the cord touched by the finger accounts for the infinite miracle of sounds. Such a dictum is less an insult to pleasure than to the flesh itself, that amazing instrument of muscles, blood, and skin, that red-tinged cloud whose lightning is the soul.

Is the soul only the supreme development of the body, the fragile evidence of the pain and pleasure of existing? Is it, on the contrary more ancient than the body, which is modeled on its image and which serves it momentarily, more or less well, as instrument?

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body's ecstasy.

Piccola anima smarrita e soave, compagna e ospite del corpo, ora t'appresti a scendere in luoghi incolori, ardui e spogli, ove non avrai più gli svaghi consueti. Un istante ancora, guardiamo insieme le rive familiari, le cose che certamente non vedremo mai più... Cerchiamo d'entrare nella morte a occhi aperti...

Petite âme, âme tendre et flottante, compagne de mon corps, qui fut ton hôte, tu vas descendre dans ces lieux pâles, durs et nus, où tu devras renoncer aux jeux d'autrefois. Un instant encore, regardons ensemble les rives familières, les objets que sans doute nous ne reverrons plus… Tâchons d'entrer dans la mort les yeux ouverts...

Sans doute, se fatiguer est une façon de se dompter ; mais l'épuisement du corps finit par engourdir l'âme. Reste à savoir, Monique, si une âme inquiète ne vaut pas mieux qu'une âme endormie.

I often think of the library established by Plotina in Trajan's Forum, with that noble inscription placed by her order over its door: Dispensary to the Soul.

Aucune caresse va jusqu'à l'âme.

I shall pass over the somnambulism of desire, the abrupt resolution which sweeps away all others, the alacrity of a body which, finally, no longer obeys anything but itself. We often describe the happiness of a soul which disencumbers itself of the body; there are moments in life when the body disencumbers itself of the soul.

Le danger fait sortir le pire de l'âme humaine, et le meilleur aussi.

A]nd death is perhaps nothing more than giving birth to a soul.

Cansarse es una manera de domar el cuerpo, pero el agotamiento del cuerpo termina por entumecer al alma. Queda por saber, Mónica, si un alma inquieta no vale más que un alma dormida.

Cansarse es una manera de domar el cuerpo, pero el agotamiento del cuerpo termina por entumecer el alma. Queda por saber, Mónica, si un alma inquieta no vale más que un alma dormida.

La musique] L'enseigner aux enfants est une épreuve pénible, parce que la technique les détourne de l'âme. (p. 80)

You are not male or female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.