Soul Quotes

To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.

Richard Scott Bakker
- Soul
- Unknown
Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Plato
- Soul
- Knowing
- Remembered

For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.

Michael Leunig
- Important
- Long
- Art
No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.

Hannah Whitall Smith
- Soul
- Lord
- Dependence
Your body is the child of your soul.

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
- Children
- Soul
- Body
I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.

Shinzo Abe
- World
- Country
- War
In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

Chris Campanioni
- Creation
- Act
- Felt
Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.

Michael Eric Dyson