Quotes about the soul page 13
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 3
“Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you.
~Nicholas Stafford”
Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer
Source: A Knight in Shining Armor
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837) <br class="br">Context: Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die,
your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: Finding Beauty in a Broken World
“Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”
Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle
Source: The Man in the High Castle
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Scandal in Spring
“If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.”
Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist
Source: Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
“God created men to test the souls of women.”
Robert A. Heinlein Job: A Comedy of Justice
Source: Job: A Comedy of Justice
“We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body."
George Macdonald, 1892”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover at Last
“For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.”
James Joyce book The Dead
Source: The Dead
“How flattering,” I grumbled. “My soul glows.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Source: Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality
“It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”
Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Variant: It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Source: The Complete Essays
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Enshrined
“I was the life and she was the soul of every party.”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: The Gift
“Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound
Variant: You will lose what you value most...
It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life.
What you value most.
It had been his soul.
Source: Spirit Bound
“It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”
William Styron book Darkness Visible
Source: Darkness Visible (1990), VI
Source: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Context: There is a region in the experience of pain where the certainty of alleviation often permits superhuman endurance. We learn to live with pain in varying degrees daily, or over longer periods of time, and we are more often than not mercifully free of it. When we endure severe discomfort of a physical nature our conditioning has taught us since childhood to make accommodations to the pain’s demands — o accept it, whether pluckily or whimpering and complaining, according to our personal degree of stoicism, but in any case to accept it. Except in intractable terminal pain, there is almost always some form of relief; we look forward to that alleviation, whether it be through sleep or Tylenol or self-hypnosis or a change of posture or, most often, through the body’s capacity for healing itself, and we embrace this eventual respite as the natural reward we receive for having been, temporarily, such good sports and doughty sufferers, such optimistic cheerleaders for life at heart.
In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come — not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. So the decision-making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting from one annoying situation to another less annoying — or from discomfort to relative comfort, or from boredom to activity — but moving from pain to pain. One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
“Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.”
Anne Rice book Memnoch the Devil
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
“There are things our souls want, and mine wants you.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?”
Theodore Roethke book The Far Field
Source: The Far Field
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
James Joyce book The Dead
Dubliners (1914)
Variant: His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
Source: "The Dead"
Context: Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
“You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
“The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.”
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher
Source: The Poetics of Reverie
“I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of mankind — the landscape of the human soul.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer
I Am A Dancer (1952)
Source: Blood Memory
Context: I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of mankind — the landscape of the human soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human being can be.
“My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.”
Anne Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day (1842)
Context: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring <br/> And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; <br/> For above and around me the wild wind is roaring, <br/> Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
Context: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring
And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;
For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Caption written for Vogue 1916
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Source: While Rome Burns
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
