Quotes About Soul

Marguerite Porete

O Soul touched of God, dissevered from sin, in the first estate of grace, ascend by divine grace into the seventh estate of grace, where the soul hath her fullhead of perfection by divine fruition in life of peace. And among you, actives and contemplatives, that to this life may come, hear now some crumbs[1] of the clean love, of the noble love, and of the high love of the free souls, and how the Holy Ghost hath his sail in his ship.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes...

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

I feel an overwhelming compassion and understanding for another human being caught in a situation where the way out is so obvious to others but not to him. Dreams are so important in one's life, yet if followed blindly, they can lead to the disintergration of one's soul.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

The moral degradation of the slave is, above all things, the weight that opposes the progress of humanity - humanity striving to rise and held back by this great burden. The cry of redemption speaks far more clearly for the souls of men than for their bodies.

There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all the life to be found around them, in a real forest. Something emanates from those trees which speaks to the soul, something no book, no museum is capable of giving.

It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast.

A soul is a water changing its freshness and depth according to the soul that drinks it.

Feelings are waters flowing in chain from soul to soul – do you know the shape of the Universe? Neither do I, but I imagine this chain of souls drinking from souls and these from others…

Happiness and sadness – veils of conscience between the brims of soul, of soul between the brims of hope of time.

Holding a majority in the decisions that impact people's lives, life, should mean that you hold a majority in wisdom, reason, soul.

Misery is a binder (of the soul) stronger than happiness.

No ocean as deep and wide as the human soul.

Send me a whisper, but one so dim that only my soul could hear.

The rich is not fit to rule, unless he is also rich in soul, in wisdom.

The soul sees the body and says: I think I know him from somewhere… The body sees the souls and says: Forgive me!

The soul sickens and heals the body, if it has sufficient existential motivation.

To each soul its eternities and its voids.

We are all pilgrims, in search of destiny, of a soul, an illusion, of a land of immortality.

You cannot cross the borders of the soul without at least once be tempted to look back… There are worlds over there. They are calling you to turn your way… familiar faces, strangers, us who have knocked countless times at its gates and they were opened for us.