Soul Quotes

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

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

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.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.