quotations about the soul
Strong souls
Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength
In farthest striving action; breathe more free
In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.
GEORGE ELIOT
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The Spanish Gypsy
And when life's sweet fable ends,
Soul and body part like friends;
No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;
A kiss, a sigh, and so away.
RICHARD CRASHAW
Temperance
This private multidimensional self, or the soul, has ... an eternal validity. It is upheld, supported, maintained by the energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is.
JANE ROBERTS
Seth Speaks
The soul's vitality after death is proportionate to its vitality before death.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.
HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE
Jesus Christ: Conferences Delivered at Notre Dame in Paris
If thy soul be good, the stroke of death cannot hurt thee, for thy spirit shall live blessedly in heaven.
ST. BASIL
attributed, Day's Collacon
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.'
OUIDA
A Village Commune
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPP
The Children and the Wolves
There may be a soul of the world, there may be ... a psychical side, of which we are not aware, to every atom in the universe, and the psychical side, like the moon, may show us ever but the one face, the other forever in the shadow; but, at best, this is only a conjecture, it presents no solid foundation upon which to rest a theory.
JOHN GRIER HIBBEN
The Problems of Philosophy
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Philosophical Investigations
From the magnitude of the brilliant and its properties, the jeweller may arrive at its value; but who can comprehend fully the preciousness of man's soul, except the God who gave it, and the Saviour who died in agony, to redeem it.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul:
There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires
That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil,
Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible
As exhalations laden with slow death,
And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys
Breathes pallid pestilence.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
The soul does contemplate and worship God; when it is not disturbed by the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to corruption like the vilest creatures? And does it not prove much more strength of mind and grandeur to be able to conceive the idea of a Being superior to all other beings, by whom and for whom all things were made ; of a Being absolutely perfect and pure, without beginning or end, of whom our soul is the image, and of whom, if I may say so, it is a part, because it is spiritual and immortal?
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Freethinkers", Les Caractères
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
JAMES HERRIOT
All Creatures Great and Small
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
PLATO
Charmides
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.
GEORGE ELIOT
Silas Marner
Keep your soul in exercise, lest her faculties rust for want of motion ... to dwell too long in the employments of the body is both the cause and sign of a dull spirit.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
The soul of man; what is it? That is the question. One thing is certain to my mind, it is immortal and cannot die. It is supposed to be an invisible spirit, ordering, ruling, and in every way guiding the mind, which transmits those orders to the brain, the brain then putting the machinery of the body in motion. The nerves and organs of the body likewise communicate with the brain direct, as the nerves of the eye, ear, nose, mouth, hand, foot, face, leg, arm, &c. &c. When the body is asleep and at rest, the mind is often most active, which seems in itself to be, as it were, a kind of pointing to the soul's immortality. It is, indeed, wonderful to think that when the sun, the moon, and stars shall have grown dim and faded, and the earth we live in melted into infinite space, and time shall have rolled on its countless course of years--in number quite beyond the limited comprehension of mortal man--his immortal soul shall still be alive and young, either clad like the angels in the beauty of holiness, with everlasting bliss and peace as its portion, or the reverse.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On the Soul of Man", Short Essays
The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.
WM. PAUL YOUNG
"Unpacking The Shack: WM Paul Young Interview", Eden