Quotes About Soul

The Christian doctrine elevated the individual soul, placing slave and master and commoner and nobleman alike on the same metaphysical footing, rendering them equal before God and the law.

And that's how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls.

Y ella le susurraba: Nací el día que te conocí. Y él respondía: Dejé de ser yo en ese momento.

Mi médico decía que todos tenemos pesos en el alma, y que esos pesos son difíciles de quitar, así que lo que nos toca es hacer más fuerte el alma.

Las almas como la de María ignoran el lenguaje mundano del amor; pero se doblegan estremeciéndose á la primera caricia de aquél á quien aman, como la adormidera de los bosques bajo el ala de los vientos.

La naturaleza es la más amorosa de las madres cuando el dolor se ha adueñado de nuestra alma; y si la felicidad nos acaricia, ella nos sonríe

It was a hilltop town in the south in summer. It was before I knew about knowing. My mind ran everywhere and was completely still at the center. And that did not feel uncomfortable. A bird sang, it added itself to the shadow under the archway. I think from this distance that I was happy. I think from this distance. I sat. It was before I knew walking. Only my soul walked everywhere without weight.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

The soul is pained by all things it thinks upon.

If Baudelaire, in hieroglyphics of the soul, had deciphered the return of the age of the sentiment and ideas, Poe, in the field of morbid psychology had more especially investigated the domain of the soul.

He desired a troubled indecision on which he might brood until he could shape it at will to a more vague or determinate form, according to the momentary state of his soul.

Baudelaire had gone further; he had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish.

If Baudelaire had made out among the hieroglyphics of the soul the critical age of thought and feeling, it was Poe who, in the sphere of morbid psychology, had carried out the closest scrutiny of the will.

No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

His behaviour was like that of the conscious or unconscious demonomaniacs who do evil for evil's sake. They are no more mad than the rapt monk in his cell, than the man who does good for good's sake. Anybody but a medical theorist can see that the desire for good and the desire for evil simply form the two opposing poles of the soul.

Yet God does exist in the idea of good, which watches over the birth of every being and leaves in the soul embodied in that being one pure tear. Good is God, and the tear the source of eternal feeling.

The soul, equal and eternal, emanates from bodies that are diverse in form and color.

El alma humana tiene una gran necesidad de blancura. Desde que lo blanco se oscurece, la desdicha empieza. La práctica y conciencia de todas las virtudes, la posesión de las mejores cualidades, la arrogancia de los más nobles sacrificios no bastan a consolar el alma de un solo extravío.

A good soul on earth hurts very much.

Te hice morir naciendo en mi corazón

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. The characteristics of the person in love must be attributed to love itself.

Pasiunea e o stare patologic? ce presupune imperfec?iunea unui suflet.

La historia nos bautizó con fuego de deshonor, y aquel terrible sufrimiento inicial hará probablemente más densas nuestras almas, porque en el dolor nos hacemos, ya que en el placer nos gastamos.

Sufletul unui îndr?gostit miroase a camer? de bolnav neaerisit?,a atmosfer? închis?,alimentat? chiar de pl?mânii ce o vor ÅŸi respira.AÅŸa se face c? întreaga îndr?gostire tinde automat c?tre frenezie.L?sat? în voia ei,ea va continua s? se multiplice pân? la ultima extremitate posibil?.