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Quotes About Soul

But Matt's unease returned the moment he entered the Sprint store and started hearing about the two-year commitment. The salesman's smile looked somehow satanic, like the devil in one of those movies where a naïve guy sells his soul. When the salesman whipped out a map of the United States—the "nonroaming" areas, he informed them, were in bright red—Matt started to back away. As
~ Harlan Coben
I now believe that television itself, the medium of sitting in front of a magic box that pulses images at us endlessly, the act of watching TV, per se, is mind crushing. It is soul deadening, dehumanizing, soporific in a poisonous way, ultimately brutalizing. It is, simply put so you cannot mistake my meaning, a bad thing.
~ Harlan Ellison
Glaubst du, dass du es schaffst, in deinem miserablen Zustand?« »Ich muss es ja wohl schaffen, oder nicht?«, entgegnete Blood. Er war wirklich sauer. »Ich meine, nachdem du dir die Seele aus dem Leib koitierst hast, bist du wahrscheinlich ziemlich schlapp, oder?«
~ Harlan Ellison
A poet who equates his soul with the fourfold metaphor of night, death, the mother, and the sea is thinking figuratively as fiercely as did the Hermeticists and the Kabbalists.
~ Harold Bloom
One does not love breathing.
~ Harper Lee
I fall in love everyday, with ideas and sensations, people I see. I hold them long enough to let them go, but I keep them in my heart and in my soul.
~ Harper Lee
You're no better. You're no damn better. You just try to kill their souls instead of their bodies.
~ Harper Lee
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.
~ Haruki Murakami
An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.
~ Haruki Murakami
Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.
~ Haruki Murakami
What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.
~ Haruki Murakami
Look deep enough into any person and you will find something shining within.
~ Haruki Murakami
Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?" "No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days," Komatsu said. "Wouldn't it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?
~ Haruki Murakami
People with dark hearts have dark dreams. Those whose hearts are even darker can't dream at all.
~ Haruki Murakami
Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart.
~ Haruki Murakami
I believe that it's not necessary to believe in the soul's existence. But turn that around and you come to the belief that there's no need to not believe in its existence.
~ Haruki Murakami
Whenever I wake up in a strange house I always feel as if the wrong soul got stuffed into the wrong body.
~ Haruki Murakami
Defining that special something isn't easy, but when you gazed into her eyes, you could always find it, reflected deep down inside.
~ Haruki Murakami
If possible, I would like my readers to savor that same emotion when they read my books. I want to open a window in their souls and let the fresh air in. This is what I think of, and hope for, as I write—purely and simply.
~ Haruki Murakami
La linea fragile delle sue labbra era agitata da un lieve tremito che sembrava in accordo col battito del suo cuore e le vibrazioni della sua anima.
~ Haruki Murakami
One by one, with my own hands, I had to make this thing I called 'I'-- or, rather, make the things that constituted me.
~ Haruki Murakami
There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness…
~ Haruki Murakami
I don't have a thing,Tengo said, except my soul.
~ Haruki Murakami
She gives physical presence to the depths of the human psyche.
~ Haruki Murakami