quotations about the soul
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
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 soul of man is an incorruptible substance, apt to receive either joy or pain both here and elsewhere.
SOLON
attributed, Day's Collacon
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 of man can never more be recalled when the spark of life has passed his lips.
HOMER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Just coffee. Black -- like my soul.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Bones
Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.
SUE MONK KIDD
The Mermaid Chair
Only by much searching and mining, are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine!
Thy sluggish senses are but bars
That stand between thee and the stars,
And shut thee from the world divine.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
"Intimations"
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
Of all battles, there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.
PAULO COELHO
Eleven Minutes
The soul is the principle of life; feeling; thought and actions in humans. It is a person's emotional or moral nature. The soul is a place for our mind; our will; emotions; senses. A place where the "I feel, I think, I see, taste etc..." exist.
LERATO CHARLOTTE LETSOSO
"The Garden: Get to know you to enjoy you", Starr 103.5 FM, July 28, 2017
The certainty of divine love and divine justice for the individual soul is that better part which no priest or potentate can take away and no revolution can defeat. And just to the extent that this is forgotten and dependence is placed on forms and ceremonies, on ecclesiastical authority, on governmental decrees, on arbitrary instruction--on anything outside of the soul itself--to exactly that extent will religion, or what passes for it, become worthless, if not corrupt.
ROSSITER JOHNSON
"The Whispering Gallery"
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
ST. JEROME
attributed, Day's Collacon
There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, on to its fluid contours, and are home.
JOSEPHINE HART
Damage
Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evil.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs