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Quotes About Soul

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Several of the [crowd's] outfits, Ignatius noticed, were new enough and expensive enough to be properly considered offenses against taste and decency. Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Canned food is a perversion, Ignatius said. I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.
~ John Kennedy Toole
No. That was out of the question. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and world-view and mind.
~ John Kennedy Toole
When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
~ John Lennon
Millions of mind guerrillas Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel.
~ John Lennon
lies in the possibility that the Founders left the Union to test itself: knowing the need to proportion aspirations to capabilities, recognizing the incompatibilities in good things, they chose to save their new state, and leave to their descendants the saving of its soul.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
Mongolians will never eat a marmot's armpits because "they contain the soul of a dead hunter.
~ John Lloyd
Engaging in Socratic question-and-answer dialectic is the key and indispensable means by which to sustain this commitment to care for one's own soul.
~ Unknown
Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.
~ Robert Quine
If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.
~ Gary Moore
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.
~ Oliver Sacks
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.
~ Martin Gore
True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being
~ Bill McCartney
My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.
~ Chris Milk
I tend to be emotional when... I breathe.
~ James Marsters
I'm totally into the emotional aspect of things.
~ Jillian Hervey
Music is the emotional life of most people.
~ Leonard Cohen
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
~ Langston Hughes
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
~ William Shakespeare
If we first purify our souls, we desire to dwell in clean surroundings.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita