Soul Quotes

I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Music is the soul of language.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.