Soul Quotes

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Whole, Sure, Longer

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

Experience, Stand, Ready

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor Hugo

Live, Human, Real

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lovers, Lips, Meets

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes

Try, Cannot, High

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle

Human, Two, Free

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope

May, Eyes, Pretty

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden

Stars, Flowers, Existence

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature, Words, Within

A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Home, Body, Books

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski

Lose, Losing, Left

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli

Destiny, Chance, Believes

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo

Bird, Wings, Illusions

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
Victor Hugo

Almost, Ill, Hardest

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin

Work, Great, Art

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Health, Fade

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil Armstrong

Nature, Deep, Human

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglass

Within, Degrade

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
T. S. Eliot

Far, Souls, Ourself

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
Marlene Dietrich

Heart, Country, America

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
John Calvin

Bad, Living, Hell

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Time, Men

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
Dorothy Day

Food, Enough, Body

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore

Art, Real, Creative

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
Isadora Duncan

Body, Simply, Dancer

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Past, Whole

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle

Person, Force, Chain

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham

Artist, Adventure, Expression

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
King Solomon

Cruel, Destroyed, Nourished

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Experience, Mind

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