Soul Quotes

Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality—

~ Alyson Noel

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

~ John O'donohue

Is that all souls are for? For when we die? No. They're for living, too.

~ Laini Taylor

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

~ Eric Clapton

It's not worth losing your soul to win a guy.

~ Daniel Nayeri

I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.

~ Anonymous

Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.

~ Patti Roberts

Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.

~ Isadora Duncan

When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security.

~ Jim Anderson

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

~ C.s. Lewis

The illusion is we are only physical.

~ Vanna Bonta

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

~ Terence Mckenna

Don’t be so hard on yourself, You’re doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that Mom ever was - The one you wanted, the one she was when you needed her and she was there, the one she was when she didn’t understand. Most of us don’t live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we’re a whole bunch of selves. When someone dies, they all integrate into the soul - the essence of who we are, beyond the different faces we wear throughout our lives. You’re just hating the selves you’ve always hated, and loving the ones you’ve always loved. It’s bound to mess you up.

~ Christopher Moore

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

~ Terence Mckenna

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

~ Graham Greene

Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning.

~ Kate Karyus Quinn

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

~ Robert Mckee

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...

~ James Hillman

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

~ Rudolfo Anaya

If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.

~ Therese Anne Fowler

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

~ Peter O'toole

When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

~ Paulo Coelho

Ocean separates lands, not souls..

~ Munia Khan

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

~ Paul Bowles

Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways.

~ Shauna Niequist

Their screams would echo through the house and reverberate against my eardrums until my mind would fracture. Years went by and with each fracture, I lost a piece of my soul until I became lost and empty inside.

~ J.d. Stroube

This is [her] soul group.’What do you mean?’It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

~ James Redfield

There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.

~ Doug Cooper

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

~ Caitlin Kittredge

There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been.

~ Nikki Rowe

We'll stop it, even if my body crumbles to bits I'll stop it with my soul!

~ Hiro Mashima

Breathe next to me. And I will capture a piece of your soul along with mine.

~ Marikit Dr. Camba

You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

~ Kyung-Sook Shin

I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love - your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?

~ J.k. Rowling

Deal with all this, live with myself, you mean? I honestly don't know. I stand often enough at the abyss of my soul, asking that same question, looking down into the dark crevices where the black monsters dwell on the bottom. They gaze up at me, and I look them in the eyes. “This also you are,” they say, and I almost fall into the void.”“And then?”Anaxantis shrugged.“And then? I turn around and go do what needs to be done. What else is there?

~ Andrew Ashling

We have a soul at times.No one’s got it non-stop,for keeps.Day after day,year after yearmay pass without it.Sometimesit will settle for awhileonly in childhood’s fears and raptures.Sometimes only in astonishmentthat we are old.It rarely lends a handin uphill tasks,like moving furniture,or lifting luggage,or going miles in shoes that pinch.It usually steps outwhenever meat needs choppingor forms have to be filled.For every thousand conversationsit participates in one,if even that,since it prefers silence.Just when our body goes from ache to pain,it slips off-duty.It’s picky:it doesn’t like seeing us in crowds,our hustling for a dubious advantageand creaky machinations make it sick.Joy and sorrowaren’t two different feelings for it.It attends usonly when the two are joined.We can count on itwhen we’re sure of nothingand curious about everything.Among the material objectsit favors clocks with pendulumsand mirrors, which keep on workingeven when no one is looking.It won’t say where it comes fromor when it’s taking off again,though it’s clearly expecting such questions.We need itbut apparentlyit needs usfor some reason too.

~ Wisława Szymborska