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Quotes About Soul

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run
~ Herman Melville
Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste-- his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.
~ Herman Melville
Hatta isteyen als?n vücudumu, samimiyim, o ben deÄŸilim. Ve böylece yaÅŸas?n Nantucket, vars?n balinazede bir tekne gelsin als?n vücudumu, yeter ki dokunmas?nlar Jüpiter'in kendisinin bile alamad??? ruhuma.
~ Herman Melville
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deacesed inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanities.
~ Hermann Broch
B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.
~ Homer
Of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart.
~ Homer
down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home
~ Homer
Achilleus started awake, staring,        and drove his hands together, and spoke, and his words were sorrowful:        Ã¢â'¬Å"Oh, wonder! Even in the house of Hades there is left something,        a soul and an image, but there is no real heart of life in it.
~ Homer
No, Isabella," said the Princess, "I should not deserve this incomparable parent, if the inmost recesses of my soul harboured a thought without her permission—nay, I have offended her; I have suffered a passion to enter my heart without her avowal—but here I disclaim it; here I vow to heaven and her—
~ Horace Walpole
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.
~ Howard Thurman
Those of us who invite God's Spirit to live in the core of our being and to express Christ through us - body, soul and spirit - become linked forever with God.
~ Hugh Ross
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
When the Pentagon feels free and even gleeful about killing anybody and Everybody who gets in the way of their vicious crusade for oil, the public soul of this country has changed forever, and professional sports is only a serenade for the death of the American dream. Mahalo .
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I do it for the music.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Emerson argued that "the whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible, and they are. They want awakening, [and for that purpose they need teachers] to get the soul out of bed, out of her deep habitual sleep." That
~ Huston Smith
Dismiss these post facto accounts as legends if we must; there is no question but that in his life as the Buddha the springs of tenderness gushed abundant. Wanting to draw the arrows of sorrow from everyone he met, he gave to each his sympathy, his enlightenment, and the strange power of soul, which, even when he barely spoke a word, gripped the hearts of his visitors and left them transformed.
~ Huston Smith
For "what the soul is to the body of man," Saint Augustine was to write, "that the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, which is the Church.
~ Huston Smith
Sufletul omului e ca mâncarea. Cu timpul, se acreÅŸte.
~ Hwang S?k-y?ng
She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.
~ Iain Pears
If you asked for our souls, it wouldn't be too much
~ Ibrahim Nasrallah
As a young man, I craved fame. I was trying to fix holes in my soul that were there from childhood.
~ Rodney Crowell
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
~ Rainn Wilson
Plastic surgery can't make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn't it? It's in your soul; you can't strap it on.
~ Sarah Parish