Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Source: The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader
Quotes about the soul page 4
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Non-Fiction, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965)
Variant: Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
Stella Adler (1901–1992) American actress and teaching coach
“Memory is the scribe of the soul”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.”
Sharon Creech book Chasing Redbird
Source: Chasing Redbird
“This is [her] soul group.’
What do you mean?’
It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.”
James Redfield book The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
Source: The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.”
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
“sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Source: Where There is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges
“Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.”
Kristin Cast (1986) American writer
“I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”
Terry Pratchett book Going Postal
Source: Going Postal
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Lyrics, The Bends (1995)
Variant: Immerse your soul in love
“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
Canto V, line 33.
Variant: Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Source: The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
"Consistency" (5 December 1887). This quote is engraved on Twain's bust in the National Hall of Fame
“Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life!
Use to the utmost
the skill that is yours.”
Pindar (-517–-437 BC) Ancient Greek poet
Pythian 3, line 61-62.
Variant translation: Seek not, my soul, immortal life, but make the most of the resources that are within your reach.
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
Quotes, Concession speech (2000)
Context: I've seen America in this campaign, and I like what I see. It's worth fighting for and that's a fight I'll never stop. As for the battle that ends tonight, I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out."
“for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Source: The Home and the World
Tracey Emin (1963) English artist, one of the group known as Britartists or Young British Artists
Source: Strangeland
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“The noble soul reveres itself”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery
Variant: I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them. This statement was quoted in Charm and Courtesy in Conversation (1904) by Frances Bennett Callaway, p. 153 as "I permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." It has also often been paraphrased in various other ways: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
Source: Up from Slavery
“I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
Source: J'accuse! (1898)
Context: In making these accusations I am aware that I am making myself liable to articles 30 and 31 of the law of 29/7/1881 regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offence. I expose myself to that risk voluntarily.
As for the people I am accusing, I do not know them, I have never seen them, and I bear them neither ill will nor hatred. To me they are mere entities, agents of harm to society. The action I am taking is no more than a radical measure to hasten the explosion of truth and justice.
I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul. Let them dare, then, to bring me before a court of law and let the enquiry take place in broad daylight! I am waiting.
“I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“… disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business….”
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer
New York Times interview (1985)
Context: To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body. And it's partly the language that we don't want to show.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Source: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
When You Are Old http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1756/, st. 1–3 <br class="br">The Rose (1893) <br class="br">Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats <br class="br">Context: p>When you are old and gray and full of sleep,<br>And nodding by the fire, take down this book,<br>And slowly read, and dream of the soft look<br>Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,<br>And loved your beauty with love false or true,<br>But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,<br>And loved the sorrows of your changing face.And bending down beside the glowing bars,<br>Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled<br>And paced upon the mountains overhead<br>And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.</p
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist