Quotes About Soul

The only thing I had was Laika, the dog, whose homeless soul was howling through the cosmos. And my brother, the Minotaur.

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee."11

Yes, Father. They have the bravest hearts, the noblest souls, and the shiniest armor in all the world." "Shiniest armor?" repeated King Ban.

I fear the line between myself and madness is as fine these days as a cobweb, and I have seen what it means when a soul crosses over into that dim and wretched place.

To believe, to act, and to have events confound you—I grant you, that is hard to bear. But to believe, and not to act, or to act in a way that every fiber of your soul held was wrong—how can you not see? That is what would have been reprehensible.

What is human is immortal!

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Music touches places beyond our touching.

Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

The devil does not stay where music is.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

The eyes are the window of the soul.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Time is the soul of this world.