Quotes About Soul

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

In all those women there is not one to match you. They have known my flesh. You have known my heart, and stolen my soul.

Germans felt similar emotions. The war was to be, wrote Thomas Mann, "a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope. The victory of Germany will be a victory of soul over numbers. The German soul," he explained, "is opposed to the pacifist ideal of civilization for is not peace an element of civil corruption?

It is a singular fact that men generally, and every man in particular, constantly endeavor to desert real life for one which is altogether artificial, artistic, and, in a word, ideal. The ideal is an image of perfection created by the soul itself.

There is this peculiarity about the pleasure derived from the beautiful, that when raised to the highest pitch it sharpens into pain, acute and exquisite—pain which is itself a delight, produced by the strain of the soul to grasp and assimilate the perfect.

The narrative of the Gospels may carry conviction to some minds, the testimony of the Church may take hold of and satisfy others, but if so, what is it that really convinces? It is the fact, or, if the expression be preferred, the idea of the Incarnation commending itself to the soul of man. That idea, looking upon the soul of man, bears its own guarantee with it, and thus, and thus only, through the head or through the heart, enchains consent.

The cravings of the soul of man before music and painting were discovered must have resembled the stutterings for impossible utterance in the dumb.

The desire to love is the impulsion of the soul towards the Ideal, it is the sense of the indefinite, the perfect. It is also insatiable, for the perfect is always on the horizon, never attainable.

Curiosity, is a movement of the soul towards Truth, which it seeks to assimilate by Knowledge. It is the first step in the direction of Certainty.

All the forces in the human soul, all the investigations of the mind, the artistic creations of the fancy, all refinements in the pursuit of pleasure even, are the gravitation of man's higher being towards the Ideal.

I have never given my soul to the keeping of an earthly body, And so I can sing at all times and seasons.

I have followed Silence from the belt of Orion to Berenice's curls -- then lost it in the laughter of my soul.

For a body of dust is a limit to the loving of a soul. It sees a face and finds it fair, forgetting the myriad who are unseen.

Time's hidden ways thine eyes reveal to me: Deep in their vision broods the memory Of all the myriad lives thy soul has known, Thou passionate pilgrim of eternity!

The pain of Love has poisoned all the day. Pitiless Love, that lures but to betray! And pitiless the whisper of the soul: Like songs and worlds, this too shall pass away.

Pray for the repose of his soul. He was so tired.

everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows.

Boy, just look at the soul shining through my eyes! It's like a goddamned flower!

He didn't dislike New York with the simple diffidence of a small-town kid or the tragic ignorance of a yokel--he hated it with what he hoped was his soul.

Jazz closed his eyes.

You think you're gonna find your soul. Ever since I've known you, you've been thinkin' that someday you're gonna crack and end up like your daddy. And you're been looking for proof that you won't. What you don't realize is this: the looking is the proof. Trust me when I tell you that Billy Dent never had a moment's doubt in his life about what he was and what he was doing. Your doubt is your soul

Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life

The soul of man is nourished by learning, as the body is by food.

When soul to soul can message send-- Dispatched from mind to mind-- All nations will be swayed by thought, And thought will rule mankind.