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Quotes About Soul

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
~ Felix Mendelssohn
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Las transformaciones no se operan solamente en el cuerpo sino en lo que tenemos dentro, espíritu, alma, inteligencia, sentimiento.
~ Fernando Soto Aparicio
Los animales no son cosas y tienen alma y no son negociables ni manipulables y hay una jerarquía en ellos que se establece según la complejidad de sus sistemas nerviosos, por los cuales sufren y sienten como nosotros: la jerarquía del dolor.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Hoy en Estados Unidos se están produciendo y masacrando al año por este sistema de producción desalmada 50 millones de vacas, terneros y cerdos, 200 millones de pavos y 6.000 millones de pollos para que los dueños de los Burger King, los McDonald's y los Wendy's inflen sus bolsas y los comedores de carne, negros y blancos, cristianos y musulmanes, tengan carburante para sus almas inmortales.
~ Fernando Vallejo
El hombre en lo más hondo de lo más honde de su alma oscura es un ser malo, y mientras uno más vive y más lo conoce más malo es.
~ Fernando Vallejo
En Colombia no hay más esterilizada que ella misma, a la que, como con un cauterio, entre periodistas y políticos, la iglesia y la FIFA, le esterilizaron el alma.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Rachel's kiss reached inside him and twined around what passed for his soul. and when she took her mouth from his, she had it all. He knew he loved her with everything he was. Everything that he could be. There would never be another woman for him. And he could never tell her.
~ Fiona Brand
Choose knowledge, if thou desirest a blessing from the Universal Provider; for the ignorant man cannot raise himself above the earth, and it is by knowledge that thou must render thy soul praiseworthy.
~ Firdausi
But of the stimulus of drugs, of potions, beware. For the sake of that very majesty with which you justly wish to aggrandize your soul, beware. Their fountains will be presently exhausted, and then you shall helplessly beat your breast, as without possibility of arising from the brink you draw in their foul, their maddening lees, and curse yourself for slaying those noble powers which it was your longing to strengthen, to nourish, and to clarify.
~ Fitz Hugh Ludlow
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.
~ Flann O'Brien
Never before had I believed or suspected that I had a soul but just then I knew I had. I knew also that my soul was friendly, was my senior in years and was solely concerned for my own welfare. For convenience I called him Joe. I felt a little reassured to know that I was not altogether alone. Joe was helping me.
~ Flann O'Brien
the Bible is a book dealing with the science of the mind. It is a book telling man how to release his soul (or subconscious mind) from bondage.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
In the twenty-third psalm, we read: "He restoreth my soul." This means that the subconscious mind or soul, must be restored with the right ideas, and the "mystical marriage" is the marriage of the soul and the spirit, or the subconscious and superconscious mind.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Recuerda quien eres.
~ Florencia Bonelli
Her sorrows went up into regions of sublimity, of which we can form only the vaguest conceptions. They went down into profound depths of the soul, which we cannot explore because they have no parallel in ourselves. They were heightened by the unappreciable perfection of her nature, by the exuberant abundance of her grace, by the exceeding beauty of Jesus, and above all by His Divinity.
~ Fr Frederick William Faber
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.
~ Frederic Chopin
Bach é um astrônomo, descobrindo as estrelas mais maravilhosas. Beethoven desafia o universo. Eu apenas tento expressar a alma e o coração do homem. Frédéric Chopin
~ Frederic Chopin
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive-you are leaking.
~ Fran Lebowitz
On atteint aisément une âme vivante à travers les crimes, les vices les plus tristes, mais la vulgarité est infranchissable.
~ Francois Mauriac
Oui, la beauté ne saurait jamais nous faire oublier notre condition tragique. Il y a une beauté proprement humaine, ce feu d'esprit qui brûle, s'il brûle, au-delà du tragique.
~ François Cheng
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
~ Francois Fenelon
He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.
~ Francois Lelord
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
~ Francois Rabelais