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Quotes About Soul

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.
~ Steven Pinker
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence…the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason
~ Steven Pinker
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
~ Steven Pressfield
What could split its soul into a thousand pieces? A million? And with it, the answer: God. God could divide Himself infinitesimally. God could fracture his soul into one and a half billion pieces and place a little of it in each and every man and woman walking the earth. And then, as understanding settled, he beheld
~ Steven Savile
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.
~ Stevie Smith
esse querido plano interior; o segredo da felicidade é não termos escrúpulos para connosco e termos o máximo de atenções para com todos os outros; de resto, o próprio tempo disse já adeus a todos os piratas da alma
~ Stig Dagerman
We touch, and the link is forged. Clawing the residue of Beth's failing strength in my grasp, I align our souls with the child's. I can even see her name, as if it marks every cell of her body. Rayojini. Rayo. Daughter. She had been waiting for us. She is the one, the only possible one.
~ Storm Constantine
Her words cast a stone into the pool of my soul; the ripples they caused were fierce and shallow, but the knowledge itself sank deep into my spirit and lodged there in the dark, deep currents; immutable.
~ Storm Constantine
A great burden had been lifted from my soul. I had divested its weight onto the child Rayojini, and I knew she would not feel it there. It could not harm her. Not yet. Not for a long time.
~ Storm Constantine
Ays is my lost soul, he though, my lost soul wandering.
~ Storm Constantine
Avirzah'e Tartaruchi; a prince of artisans. He was fearsome to look at; I saw a murderer's soul, but perhaps that was only artifice on his part. His pale skin had a sallow tinge, causing him to stand out from his deepest red. His mouth smiled in a lazy, sensual way, but his eyes were hooded and watchful.
~ Storm Constantine
My beautiful one," he said. "Daniel. My eyes, my ears, my tongue, my heart." "Indeed, he is beautiful," Ainzu agreed. "Look well, for you look upon your own spirit. That is what Daniel represents. Is he not a lamb to your lion? Have you not lain down together?
~ Storm Constantine
Impotency was just another part of the murky hinterland that was once the light of his soul.
~ Storm Constantine
Perhaps my own soulscape was trying to give me a message, but the illusion made me uncomfortable, and I closed my eyes to banish it.
~ Storm Constantine
Daniel felt like he was held in an electric field. Othman's touch somehow confirmed and intensified the presence of Owen. These men knew him. His soul felt naked. He could not speak, or if he did, he would speak in tongues. He didn't want to talk about his abilities. Then Othman withdrew his hand and Owen moved away.
~ Storm Constantine
In the act of violating their supposed victim, they surrender their soul to the magician's power.
~ Storm Constantine
He has become the victim of violation, raped of his soul essence and personality.
~ Storm Constantine
Only your death can bring back the knowledge of the past. Your soul must be snuffed out like an exploding sun. Run away from it, Shemyaza. Disappear into the world. Become Peveral Othman again. It is what you really want. You're not a saviour, you never wanted to be. Others have shaped you in the image of their desires.
~ Storm Constantine
Shan knew he had been walking in the forest of winter for a long time, but from that moment the days would grown longer and light would return to the land of his soul.
~ Storm Constantine
You took me from the crystal, the first gate to the source, and dragged me to into the abyss. You sought to eclipse all knowledge of light from my soul, so that I would become your dark god. But Sofia…" and here he paused with a smile. "Don't you understand that by showing me the dark of the Tree, you made me into the perfect avatar of the Shamir? The true king must have knowledge of both light and dark. You gave me this.
~ Storm Constantine
Ushas was not the most celebrated of soulscapers, but she was one of the most glamorous soulscaper currently available for commision.
~ Storm Constantine
I am Shemyaza's vizier, his adviser. The age of this body has little to do with the maturity of my soul, or the fact that once I lived in Grigori flesh.
~ Storm Constantine
All individual soulscapes are connected; it is merely a matter of perception and use of a mere potent fume to enter a consensual scape.
~ Storm Constantine
Dwell in the darkness of thought and drink of the poison of life.
~ Storm Constantine