SOUL QUOTES V

quotations about the soul

Feeble souls are like those tracks of land which have neither depth nor richness of soil.

DAVID THOMAS

The Homilist


The soul is more than what happens to us when death enters, it's living a full life now, regardless of the time that you have left.

CORINE GATTI

"Live the Life You Want According to Thomas Moore", Beliefnet, July 31, 2017


Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

letter, June 1880

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The soul is healed by being with children.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

The Idiot

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If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior.

CASSANDRA CLARE

Clockwork Angel

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And unto them too, souls are born,
Those wondrous things, so slowly wrought,
That breathes a subtler thing in air,
And daily at the altar fare
Upon the living bread of thought.

CAROLINE SPENCER

"Humanity"

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There's no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson.

BART

The Simpsons

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Life, with the Soul predominant,
Is a noble mosaic, a bewitching arabesque.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"


The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty, by how little.

WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER

The Solitudes of Nature and of Man: Or, The Loneliness of Human Life


The soul is the connecting link between God and man, and between the spirit and the flesh, and has its earthly abode in the blood or life.

VAN BRUNT WYCKOFF

attributed, Day's Collacon


The soul, then, lives by God when it lives well, for it cannot live well unless by God working in it what is good; and the body lives by the soul when the soul lives in the body, whether itself be living by God or no. For the wicked man's life in the body is a life not of the soul, but of the body.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

SOPHOCLES

Philoctetes

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Every soul is a battlefield.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

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Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"A Psalm of Life"

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The fire that burns in the soul is of the same essential nature as the stars.

GEORG LUKACS

attributed, "Can Poetry Change Your Life?", The New Yorker, July 31, 2017


Whoever saw his own soul? No man. Yet what is there more present, or what to each man nearer, than his own soul?

EDWARD VI

attributed, Day's Collacon


When you're born a lover
You're born to suffer
Like all soul sisters
And soul brothers

DEPECHE MODE

"Goodnight Lovers"


To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul -- would you understand why that's much harder?

AYN RAND

The Fountainhead

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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

ANATOLE FRANCE

attributed, Kinship with the Animals

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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

T. S. ELIOT

The Rock

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