Soul Quotes

• If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

  

  Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
  • Family
  • Institution
  • Koran

• No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Faith
  • Goodness

• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Mean
  • Reason

• God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

  

  Katherine Howe
  • Innocent
  • Torment
  • Shields

• Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.

  

  Sarah Monette
  • World
  • Men
  • War

• His native home deep imaged in his soul.

  

  Homer
  • Home
  • Soul
  • Imaged

• Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

  

  Akhenaton
  • Soul
  • Honor

• I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Pleasure
  • Images
  • Notion

• This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Intelligence

• I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Book
  • Secret
  • Thee

• I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Writing
  • True
  • Passion

• All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • People
  • World
  • Soul

• Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

  

  William Cowper
  • Tears
  • Kissing
  • Bliss

• 'Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Immortality
  • Pains
  • Reforms

• Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.

  

  Alan Finger
  • Love
  • Emotion
  • Ego

• The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.

  

  Walter Bonatti
  • Mountain
  • Weapons
  • Conquer

• My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Taste
  • Musical
  • Moved

• In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn: Object of my implacable disgust.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Disgusting

• By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Shadow
  • Soldier
  • Terror

• Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

  

  M.C. Brockert
  • Black
  • Problem
  • Artist

• Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Satisfaction
  • Labour

• Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Garden
  • Wolf
  • Vegetables

• But-criminals are remote from you-as in love, they turn away and turn me away from the world and its laws. Thiers smells of sweat, sperm, and blood. In short, to my body and my thristy soul it offers devotion. It was because their world contains these erotic conditions that I was bent on evil.

  

  Jean Genet
  • World
  • Soul
  • Evil

• Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Flower
  • Trembled

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