Soul Quotes

• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Always

• 'Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.'

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Good
  • Soul

• Schoenberg's music leads us into a realm where musical experience is a matter not of the ear but of the soul alone, and at this point the music of the future begins.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Future

• Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Heart
  • Soul

• You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • Growth
  • Mountains

• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Body
  • Diamond
  • Brainy

• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • Place
  • For Her

• The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Blame
  • Distaste

• The Soul selects her own Society - Then - shuts the Door - To her divine Majority - Present no more -

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Society
  • Present
  • Door

• How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Cure
  • Senses

• And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

  

  Socrates
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Courage

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Riches
  • Precious
  • Stolen

• The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Soul

• A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• No rack can torture me, My soul ’s at liberty. Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder oneYou cannot prick with saw, Nor rend with scymitar. Two bodies therefore be; Bind one, and one will flee.The eagle of his nest No easier divest And gain the sky, Than mayest thou,Except thyself may be Thine enemy; Captivity is consciousness, So’s liberty.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • May
  • Enemy
  • Sky

• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Nature
  • For Her

• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Feelings
  • Laughing
  • Snow

• Now, when I play soul piano, for instance, and I play a rendition of 'Spain,' I do it deconstructively. That's the most fun, but I can only do that when I'm on my own.

  

  Chick Corea
  • Fun
  • Soul

• Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Artist
  • Wall
  • Photography

• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Desire
  • Laws
  • Temptation

• There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Death
  • Society
  • Space

• Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Sleep
  • Joys
  • Vanish

• The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

  

  Socrates
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Cured

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