Soul Quotes

Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.

I grew up listening to old soul.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.

I am most proud that I stayed true to the music of my soul.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything.