Quotes About Soul

There is a balm in Gilead," she read from the back, "to make the wounded whole—" "There's power enough in Heaven / To cure a sin-sick soul.

We don't just sing; we are the song.

And she knew that that was why drugs were so dangerous. Because they blew the mind. Not the heart. But the mind. And the heart followed. And the soul followed that.

Besides, while Gamache wanted very much to solve the crime, he didn't want to lose his soul in the process. He suspected there were enough lost souls already.

That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will pick your soul up gently by the nape of the neck, Home. Home. He wanted to go home. And sit by the fire. And listen to their friends talking and laughing. To hold Reine-Marie's hand and watch their grandchildren play. And caress you into darkness and paradise.

But what she really should have been afraid of was words, ideas. Amelia knew that. And she knew that that was why drugs were so dangerous. Because they blew the mind. Not the heart. But the mind. And the heart followed. And the soul followed that.

Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

All thoughts that mould the age begin Deep down within the primitive soul.

The disjoining of deed from will, of practice from theory, is to put asunder what God has joined by an indissoluble sacrament. The soul must be tainted before the action become corrupt; and there is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man.

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

I pray my soul will welcome always that small seed. That I will hail it when it enters me. I don't mind being grit, soil, dirt, mud-brown, laced with the rot of old leaves, if only the seed can

En la profunda noche oscura del alma las licorerías y los bares están cerrados. (Del cuento Inmanejable)

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.

For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.

Lying as a way of life is a dangerous game", the Pole went on. "And not just because you risk the vengeance of the NKVD. You risk the integrity, the coherence, of your own soul.

The soul can't breathe without hope. Torture is to keep living after your soul has died.

T]he imagination identifies … the external God with the soul of man. The imagination is … the true place of an existence which is absent, not present to the senses, though nevertheless sensational in its essence. Only the imagination solves the contradiction in an existence which is at once sensational and not sensational[.]