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Quotes About Soul

Within him wrestled invisibly many contrary and irreconcilable feelings, especially the contrast between the greatness that he felt in his soul and the misery and weakness of what he was able to express and reveal before others.
~ Ivo Andri?
beautiful soul weeps deep~
~ Ivo Andric
I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
I now understand that our life experiences come forth from our souls and that nothing really happens to us; it all happens for our benefit.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
You see, the soul already knows you are always safe and survival is not your issue. It is your Creator's issue.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Even in the information age, trust is not a mass commodity that can be acquired; it must be handcrafted in your soul.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then one day without warning flood out.
~ J. M. Coetzee
Seeking happiness is as much a part of being human as having a soul.
~ J. Thomas
The whole point of love is that it has no reason. It just is.
~ J.D. Robb
You're Eve Dallas. You're the love of my life. My heart and soul. You're a cop, mind and bone. You're a woman of strength and resilience. Stubborn, hardheaded, occasionally mean as a badger, and more generous than you'll admit.
~ J.D. Robb
I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.
~ J.D. Robb
You've played the games. You're a competitive soul." "What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?
~ J.D. Robb
O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
~ J.D. Robb
So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
~ J.D. Robb
To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.
~ J.M. Coetzee
She is no longer sure that people are always improved by what they read. Furthermore, she is not sure that writers who venture into the darker territories of the soul always return unscathed.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Decency: the inexplicable: the ground of all ethics. Things we do not do. We do not stare when the soul leaves the body, but veil our eyes with tears or cover them with our hands. We do not stare at scars, which are places where the soul has struggled to leave and been forced back, closed up, sewn in.
~ J.M. Coetzee
La gente que duda de sí misma no tiene alma. Yo estoy haciendo lo que puedo para fabricarme un alma, aunque sea al final de la vida.
~ J.M. Coetzee
When death cuts all other links, there remains the name. Baptism: the union of a soul with a name, the name it will carry into eternity.
~ J.M. Coetzee
kalbos prigimtis yra daina, o dainos prigimtis - poreikis pripildyti gars? perd?m erdvi?, apytušt? žmogaus siel?.
~ J.M. Coetzee
En cuanto a la vaga intuición que tiene él al respecto —la idea de que, lejos de faltarle pasión, su alma bulle de anhelo por algo que desconoce—, se la toma con escepticismo, y la considera la clase de relato que alguien provisto de un alma seca, racional y deficiente se cuenta a sí mismo para conservar su amor propio.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Estás conmigo, pero no de la misma forma que estás en América, no cuando estabas cuando te marchaste, sino estando de una forma profunda e inmutable: como el amado, como ese que no muere. Es a tu alma a quien me dirijo, igual que será mi alma la que se quedará contigo cuando esta carta termine
~ J.M. Coetzee
He deals with my soul: every day he folds the flesh aside and exposes my soul to the light; he has probably seen many souls in the course of his working life; but the care of souls seems to have left no more mark on him than the care of hearts leaves on the surgeon. (p 118)
~ J.M. Coetzee
Yo tengo ganas de decirles que la conciencia se te come hasta que no queda nada de ti, como una araña que se come a una avispa, o una avispa que se come a una araña, nunca me acuerdo de cómo va, y solo queda la carcasa.
~ J.M. Coetzee