Quotes About Soul

He'd just interpreted his brother's enthusiasm, blending his own fantasies in to add a little extra flavouring. But this new music had a spiritual thing going for it. This was his music, the sound of his soul rising up, and as he leaned forward to embrace it

took those drugs that made me search my soul, and try to see what I was all about … But the drugs back-fired. I took acid, and it squashed my ego down a little bit, and it hurt my feelings that I didn't have what someone else might have had. When you go through too much of that, it's like an attack you have inside your head. You won't accept it like that. I want it to be perfect! Music is perfect! 'But I never ever quit. See, I'm not a quitter.

That's what I was gonna do, and I wasn't going to hurt. And if you shut yourself off and say, "This isn't going to hurt me," you can't shut it down without shutting it down totally. I closed myself down so much that I was making it, doing great with surviving – but my soul was completely encased.

And what I recall of it was that their zest and gusto for life was what made those times so supercharged. So that if they were drinking they'd drink a lot, and when they were playing they'd play with all their heart and soul.

About the universe,' smiled Yesugei. 'Have I never told you of it? The principle of the minor flaw.' Tamu shook his head. 'A foolish thing,' said Yesugei. 'I found myself believing that every soul should possess a flaw. Some exhibit it early and survive. Others do not, and it grows, and when it emerges it has become monstrous. The greater the soul, the greater the monster. So it is better to have had your brush with destruction now.

The soul secure in her existence smiles at the drawn dagger and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself grow dim with age and nature sink in years, but thou shall flourish in immortal youth, unhurt amid the war of elements, the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

My mother's soul was still Norwegian in a way that mine was not.

The lack was more in his soul than his body.

They reckon you feel love in your heart but that's bollocks. True love, the type what strikes you down and makes you change for ever, you feel that kind of love in every fucking organ inside you.

True love, the type that strikes you down and makes you change forever, you feel that kind of love in every f*****g organ inside you. Liver, kidneys, heart, and spleen. Every tiny cell what makes up your brain and your spine, your bones and blood and muscles. It keens through you.

In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule.

There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo consiste en pegarse un balazo en el alma.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul. What draws us away from God is not sensuality but abstraction.

Mensch ohne Vorurteile bedeutet gewöhnlich Mensch ohne Geistigkeit. Vorurteile, Aberglauben, Skrupel sind Keime des Geistes, der in einfachen Seelen sprießt. Mit ihnen aufzuräumen, um von den Seelen die Last zu nhmen, die "den freien Ausdruck des Geistes erstickt", begünstigt lediglich die Erosion dieser armen Boden.

Da nicht einmal das Böse auf Erden rein ist, hat jede der drei demokratischen Wellen dem Menschen eine klarere Vorstellung gebracht: Die erste die von der Seele, die zweite die vom transzendenten Gott, die dritte die von der Geschichte: Platonismus, alexandrinische Theologie, Romantik.

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo es pegarse un balazo en el alma.

El psicólogo habita los suburbios del alma, como el sociólogo la periferia de la sociedad.

The soul should open itself up to foreign invasion, refuse to defend itself, favor the enemy, so that our authentic being appears and arises, not like a fragile structure protected by our timidity, but like our rock, our incorruptible granite.

Die Jahre der Jugend genügen in einer zivilisierten Gesellschaft, um die Sensibilität, die Intelligenz, die Seele zu erziehen. Heute ist dies durch den Einsatz eines ganzen Lebens kaum zu erreichen

Freedom is the myth of unoccupied, empty, void souls. When nothing guides us, freedom seems an admirable program of action. In truth, freedom does not solve the problem of the lost soul in a universe of pure contingency, but imposes its own directives.

En los subterráneos del alma, como en los desvanes de las casas viejas, no se encuentran sino ratones muertos entre muebles rotos.

Resistance is futile when everything in the world is conspiring to destroy what we admire. We are always left, however, with an incorruptible soul, so that we might contemplate, judge, and disdain.