best quotations about
Soul |
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Quotations
 | Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 17 likes |
 | Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 13 likes |
 | Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 13 likes |
 | What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior? — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 10 likes |
 | Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 9 likes |
 | My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 8 likes |
 | Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal 7 likes |
 | The great home of the soul is the open road. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 7 likes |
 | God fishes souls with a fishing rod, Satan fishes them with a net. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 6 likes |
 | It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 6 likes |
 | What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 5 likes |
 | People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 5 likes |
 | The flesh is the ashes, the soul is the flame. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 5 likes |
 | What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 5 likes |
 | The tulip is a flower without a soul; but it seems that the rose and the lily have one. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 4 likes |
 | Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 4 likes |
 | My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 4 likes |
 | Sin is whatever obscures the soul. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 4 likes |
 | The writer is the engineer of the human soul. — Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Soviet leader 4 likes |
 | The human body is the best picture of the human soul. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 4 likes |
| As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. Therefore, as the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 4 likes |
 | The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 4 likes |
 | Beauty tricks the flesh to get permission to reach the soul. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 3 likes |
 | Idleness is the rust of the soul. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 3 likes |
 | Music is the occult metaphysical exercise of a soul not knowing that it philosophizes. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 3 likes |
 | The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 3 likes |
| When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | How we need another soul to cling to. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 2 likes |
 | Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 2 likes |
| Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 2 likes |
 | Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 2 likes |
| Imagination is the eye of the soul. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 2 likes |
 | The eyes are the gateway to the soul. |
 | The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of “depth” is overestimated. |
 | If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. |
 | 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. |
 | If God is not Nature herself, He is certainly the nature of Nature, and is the soul of the Soul of the world, if He is not the soul itself. |
| Below the head, shoulders and chest begins the animal, or that part of the body where the soul should not please. |
 | If the face is the mirror of the soul, then there are people who have ugly souls. |
 | My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own. |
| A large nose may be an index of a large soul. — Edmond Rostand, 1868-1918, French playwright (“Cyrano de Bergerac”) |
 | Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. |
| Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. |
 | I commend my soul to any god that can find it. |
 | Your eyes so transparent that through them one sees your lucent soul. |
 | The soul in man is greater than his fate. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | The soul is awakened through service. |
| The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. |
| As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. |
| Music is the can-opener of the soul. |
 | Romanticism is a state of the soul. Classicism is a state the spirit. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | “Things have a life of their own,” the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.” |
 | The prayer of the agnostic: “O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul.” |
 | The body is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
 | The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. |
 | Just as no soul is without sin, so neither is any soul without seeds of good. |
 | We all have souls of different ages. |
 | Choose rather to be strong in soul than in body. |
 | The uncertainty is the climate of the soul. |
Quotes in Verse
 | I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 7 likes |
 | The eyes of my soul are always open, always awake! — Dionysios Solomos, 1797-1857, Greek poet 4 likes |
| I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 2 likes |
 | The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams. |
| And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted Nevermore! |
Funny Quotes
 | I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Friendship is one soul living in two bodies. Φιλία εστί μία ψυχή εν δυσί σώμασιν ενοικουμένη. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 27 likes |
 | I think death is nothing more than the separation of two things from one another: soul and body. Ο θάνατος τυγχάνει ων, ως εμοί δοκεί, ουδέν άλλο ή δυοίν πραγμάτοιν διάλυσις, της ψυχής και του σώματος απ’ αλλήλου. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 21 likes |
 | You are a little soul, carrying a corpse. Ψυχάριον εί, βαστάζον νεκρόν. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 19 likes |
 | Happiness comes from the soul, like unhappiness. Ευδαιμονίη ψυχής και κακοοδαιμονίη. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 13 likes |
| Each art must use its tools, each body its soul. Δει γαρ την μεν τέχνην χρήσθαι τοις οργάνοις, την δε ψυχήν τω σώματι. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 11 likes |
 | I think that people do not have wealth and poverty in their homes but in their souls. Νομίζω τους ανθρώπους ουκ εν τη οικία τον πλούτον και την πενίαν έχειν, αλλ’ εν ταις ψυχαίς. — Xenophon, 430-355 BC, Ancient Greek soldier & historian 3 likes |
