Soul Quotes
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Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.
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I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.
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When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.
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The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
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There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
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I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.
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I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.
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I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.
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Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.
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I would never, ever in my life say, 'I want to go to Washington to heal the soul of Washington.'
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Unlike boxers-or any professional athlete for that matter-rowers have little motivation to do it longer than necessary. With a modest amount of self-realization, you'll know when you have acquired the nebulous gifts that rowing has to offer, whether it's courage or a strengthened soul or a powerful body. Once you have it, drop back ten yards and punt. Someone new will pick up the ball and run with it.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.
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I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.
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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!
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Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic.
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I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my father would give me the strength to be a person with disability that was proud, always held her head high, and was never, ever bitter.
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The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.
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I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
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What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.
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The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
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I have sold my soul. Just sign right here.
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On the path that leads to Nowhere I have sometimes found my soul!
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An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
