Soul Quotes

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

~ Thomas Harris

When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast and so devastating that you have no option but to merge with it. You have no option but to feel the rhythm of the universe in the rhythm of your heart.

~ Amit Ray

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.

~ Santosh Kalwar

I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it. (...)What do you think, Connor? asks Hayden. What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?Who says I even got one?For the sake of argument, let's say you do.Who says I want an argument?

~ Neal Shusterman

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

~ Oscar Wilde

I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.

~ Amy Winehouse

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS.

~ C.g. Jung

In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior.

~ Kimberly Derting

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Sing you a song and steal your soul.

~ Victoria Schwab

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

~ Steven Pinker

I am the soul in limbo.

~ André Breton

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.

~ Kiera Cass

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

~ J.k. Rowling

Chastity is not an attribute of body, but soul.

~ Udai Yadla

I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one.

~ Erlend Loe

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

~ Thomas More

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

~ J.m. Coetzee

Explore me,' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.

~ Jeanette Winterson

All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.

~ John O'donohue

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

~ George Eliot

Charisma is the fragrance of soul.

~ Toba Beta

So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray.

~ Oscar Wilde

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

~ Seneca

My soul, be satisfied with flowers,With fruit, with weeds even; but gather themIn the one garden you may call your own.

~ Edmond Rostand

Sometimes I wonder if we ever truly let anyone completely in. The desire for another human being to know you, all of you, all the pieces, even the ones you’re ashamed of — is huge. But too often, we sit down and sort through the pieces only picking out the pretty ones, leaving the ugly ones behind, not realizing that choosing not to share with someone else is like committing a crime against our very soul

~ Rachel Van Dyken

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.

~ William Shakespeare

My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you - are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again. Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, and drunk in? Or do you not want to hear about all the noise of life and the world? But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life. Do you still know me? How long the separation lasted! Everything has become so different. And how did I find you? How strange my journey was! What words should I use to tell you on what twisted paths a good star has guided me to you? Give me your hand, my almost forgotten soul. How warm the joy at seeing you again, you long disavowed soul. Life has led me back to you. Let us thank the life I have lived for all the happy and all the sad hours, for every joy, for every sadness. My soul, my journey should continue with you. I will wander with you and ascend to my solitude.

~ C.g. Jung

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.

~ Wassily Kandinsky

... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.

~ Plato

The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul.

~ John O'donohue

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.

~ John Coltrane

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

~ Jodi Picoult

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.

~ Christine Feehan

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

~ George Eliot