Quotes About Soul

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants...

Authenticity soothes the soul.

Arthur Rimbaud

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

Music is the occult metaphysical exercise of a soul not knowing that it philosophizes.

If he has a soul above the common, or if he is a man of genius, he will occasionally feel like some noble prisoner of state, condemned to work in the galleys with common criminals; and he will follow his example and try to isolate himself.

Die Einsamkeit ist das Erbe aller außergewöhnlichen Seelen.

Nos habitat, non tartara, sed nee sider coeli: Spiritus, in nobis qui viget, illafacit.

What I have here described with feeble tongue and only in terms, is no philosophical fable, invented by myself, and only of today; no, it was the enviable life of so many saints and beautiful souls among Christians, and still more among Hindus and Buddhists and also among the believers of other religions.

The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.

The word Hijra, she said, meant a Body in which a Holy Soul lives.

Friends are hard to find. In a lifetime you only get a few. And when you find them, you always know them by sight and heart alone, you always grow a little bit taller in your soul , and you know you have been blessed just to know them.

Courage, Laches responds, "is a certain endurance of the soul.

Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet—and this is the painful paradox—we have decided that they should be the ones who largely define how we live in our waning days.

Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul.

Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet

Medicine's focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul.

I have wept outwardly so that my eyes have paled, and inwardly so that my soul is washed clean!

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

What I like about you is that I've never met anybody like you in my life. You've got depth and you're funny and you have a sweet, good soul. A breeze from the water passes over us, And I admire your strength.

It is an awful, just sickening feeling, I discovered, to live with somebody, to exist in the midst of sharing a life, only to realize it is utterly doomed. It was botulism of the soul. I'd had such ambition for building a life together, because I wanted that strength of character and security. But I had overlooked the most important thing: he wasn't right for me. I wasn't right for him. Merely wanting us to be right and good together wasn't enough.

I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.

Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.