Quotes About Soul

Ah, my dear, when big and little men come to be measured rightly, and great and small actions to be weighed properly, and people to be stripped of their royal robes, beggars' rags, generals' uniforms, seedy out-at-elbowed coats, and the like—or the contrary say, when souls come to be stripped of their wicked deceiving bodies, and turned out stark naked as they were before they were born—what a strange startling sight shall we see, and what a pretty figure shall some of us cut!

Él era una mezcla de príncipe y bandido que se creía ungido para ser el amo del mundo, que fue oscureciendo su alma en guerras salvajes, resbalando a la infamia casi sin darse cuenta, pero que tenía en su corazón suficiente valor y tal vez demasiada grandeza para resignarse a ser un canalla.

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy — the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.

One beautiful heart is better than thousand beautiful faces. So choose people having beautiful hearts rather than faces!

My soul is in the sky.

For she had eyes and chose me.

Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead, Now I am fled, My soul is in the sky. Tongue, lose thy light. Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die.

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

Good Madonna, why mournest thou? Good Fool, for my brother's death. I think his soul is in hell, Madonna. I know his soul is in heaven, Fool. The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven.

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

I have Immortal longings in me.

The moon shines bright: in such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise, in such a night, Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.

It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb? I am no baby, I, that with base prayers I should repent the evils I have done: Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did Would I perform, if I might have my will; If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

Since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.