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Quotes About Soul

On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace! The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy soul! Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv'st, And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!
~ William Shakespeare
One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.
~ William Shakespeare
Não podeis ministrar algum remédio A um espírito enfermo, e da memória Arrancar-lhe uma dor enraizada, Apagar-lhe os escrúpulos gravados Na alma? Não conheceis algum nepente Capaz de lhe extirpar a um peito inquieto A matéria que pesa insuportável No coração?
~ William Shakespeare
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
~ William Shakespeare
Oh, I would say, you've never understood me, Harry, that not out of vengeance have I accomplished all my sins but because something has always been close to dying in my soul, and I've sinned only in order to lie down in darkness and find, somewhere in the net of dreams, a new father, a new home.
~ William Styron
his disease, whatever it was, resided in shadier corners of his soul—where decisions were reached not through reason but by rationalization, and where a thin membranous growth of selfishness always seemed to prevent his decent motives from becoming happy actions.
~ William Styron
O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles...
~ William Styron
He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.
~ William Thackeray
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
~ William Wordsworth
This is the end For all our skill we have not conquered death Our spirit leaves our bodies within our final breath. We lay our instrument of flesh aside When hurt beyond all mortal hope to end This is the end
~ Winifred Holtby
Fetch it down an' I'll mix ye a Sampson." It had once been Prudie's favorite drink: brandy and cider and sugar. She stared at Jud as if he were the Devil tempting her to sell her soul.
~ Winston Graham
I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now - medals where my soul used to be.
~ Winston Groom
The Polish attitude was, "With the Germans we risk losing our liberty; with the Russians our soul".
~ Winston S. Churchill
All we can do is keep telling the stories, hoping that someone will ear. Hoping that in the noisy echoing nightmare of endlessly breaking news and celebrity gossip, other voices might be heard, speaking of the life of the mind and the soul's journey.
~ Unknown
Not faith in the beyond, but only doubt can make you, sorry soul, a bit less wretched.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Tutto un mare di giudizi, ognuno dei quali ti incastra dentro un altro uomo e ti ricrea nella sua anima. È come rinascere dentro a un migliaio di anime che ti stanno strette.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Electronic equipment replaces neither Eyes, Hands, nor Heart.
~ Unknown
If doubt is near neighbor to the heart, that may turn sour on the soul. There is both scorning and adorning when a man's undaunted mind turns pied like the magpie's hue. Yet he may still enjoy bliss, for both have a share in him, Heaven and Hell. Inconstancy's companion holds entirely to the black colour and will, indeed, take on darkness's hue, while he who is constant in his thoughts will hold to the white.
~ Unknown
Entonces Parsifal le contestó: «Si la caballería, con escudo y lanza, puede conseguir la recompensa en la tierra y el paraíso para el alma, seré siempre caballero.» En verdad tu nombre es Parsifal que significa: corta por la mitad.
~ Unknown
When indecision's in the heart The soul is bound to grieve and smart.
~ Unknown
Salir de noche y no mirar la luna es como dar el cuerpo sin alma.
~ Xavier Velasco
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
~ Yann Martel
The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
~ Yann Martel