Quotes About Soul

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,Heav'n did a recompense as largely send:He gave to mis'ry all he had, a tear,He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised by men.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

Aye, danger mix'd with jealous despite Shall send thy soul into eternal night!

personal well-being serves solely to excavate within your soul a chasm which waits to be filled by a landslide of dread, an empty mold whose peculiar dimensions will one day manufacture the shape of your unique terror

My only hope lay in my ability to make a metamorphic recovery, to accept in every way the nightmarish order of things so that I could continue to exist as a successful organism even without the protective nonsense of the mind and the imagination, the protective dream of having any kind of soul or self.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

He would sell his soul if he knew what merchant would lay out money upon't; and some of 'em have need of one.

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth...

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

A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.