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Quotes About Soul

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
~ William Butler Yeats
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
~ William Butler Yeats
If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
~ William Jennings Bryan
To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.
~ William Mountford
"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
(from The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1)
~ William Shakespeare
Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.
~ William Shakespeare
A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.
~ William Whewell
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
~ Baden Powell de Aquino
A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving.
~ Rosa Campbell Praed
Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.
~ Rumi
The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.
~ Swami Vivekananda
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.
~ William Shakespeare
I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.
~ Zell Miller
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
~ Horace Mann
What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
~ Khalil Gibran
The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
~ Democritus
Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.
~ Derek Landy
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
~ E. B. White
My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.
~ Eminem
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
~ Mark Twain
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.
~ Richard Ellmann
Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.
~ Ridgely Torrence