quotations about the soul
And when life's sweet fable ends,
Soul and body part like friends;
No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;
A kiss, a sigh, and so away.
RICHARD CRASHAW
Temperance
Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.
SUE MONK KIDD
The Mermaid Chair
The soul's vitality after death is proportionate to its vitality before death.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.
PAULO COELHO
Eleven Minutes
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
ST. JEROME
attributed, Day's Collacon
The soul of man can never more be recalled when the spark of life has passed his lips.
HOMER
attributed, Day's Collacon
There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, on to its fluid contours, and are home.
JOSEPHINE HART
Damage
This private multidimensional self, or the soul, has ... an eternal validity. It is upheld, supported, maintained by the energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is.
JANE ROBERTS
Seth Speaks
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Some minds are incapable of skepticism.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Montaigne; or, the Skeptic", Representative Men
Strong souls
Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength
In farthest striving action; breathe more free
In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy
There may be a soul of the world, there may be ... a psychical side, of which we are not aware, to every atom in the universe, and the psychical side, like the moon, may show us ever but the one face, the other forever in the shadow; but, at best, this is only a conjecture, it presents no solid foundation upon which to rest a theory.
JOHN GRIER HIBBEN
The Problems of Philosophy
The soul of man is an incorruptible substance, apt to receive either joy or pain both here and elsewhere.
SOLON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The certainty of divine love and divine justice for the individual soul is that better part which no priest or potentate can take away and no revolution can defeat. And just to the extent that this is forgotten and dependence is placed on forms and ceremonies, on ecclesiastical authority, on governmental decrees, on arbitrary instruction--on anything outside of the soul itself--to exactly that extent will religion, or what passes for it, become worthless, if not corrupt.
ROSSITER JOHNSON
"The Whispering Gallery"
The soul is the principle of life; feeling; thought and actions in humans. It is a person's emotional or moral nature. The soul is a place for our mind; our will; emotions; senses. A place where the "I feel, I think, I see, taste etc..." exist.
LERATO CHARLOTTE LETSOSO
"The Garden: Get to know you to enjoy you", Starr 103.5 FM, July 28, 2017
Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evil.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Just coffee. Black -- like my soul.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Bones
Of all battles, there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit