Soul Quotes

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare
- Men
- Imagination
- Lying
There is only one romance the Soul's.

William Butler Yeats

Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.

André Aciman
- Soul
- Body
- Met
Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

Socrates
- True
- Pain
- Pleasure
I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

Kim Basinger
- Up
- Music
- Soul
Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?

Thomas Hardy
- Sins
- Punished
- Judgments
It is certain that if God is to be born in the soul it must turn back to eternity…. It must turn in toward itself with all is might, must recall itself, and concentrate all its faculties within itself, the lowest as well as the highest. All its dissipated powers must be gathered up into one, because unity is

Johannes Tauler
- Up
- God
- Unity
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
- Good
- Men
- Success