Soul Quotes

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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

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

Berthold Auerbach

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

He who binds
His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

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.

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.

Wassily Kandinsky

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.

Richard Lovelace

It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world…But for Wales—!

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

We are again confronted with one of the most vexing aspects of advanced industrial civilization: the rational character of its irrationality. Its productivity and efficiency, its capacity to increase and spread comforts, … the extent to which this civilization transforms the object world into an extension of man's mind and body makes the very notion of alienation questionable. The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. The very mechanism which ties the individual to his society has changed, and social control is anchored in the new needs which it has produced.

Herbert Marcuse

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Ezra Taft Benson

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

Oswald Spengler

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!

Christopher Marlowe

We love in another's soul
whatever of ourselves
we can deposit in it;
the greater the deposit,
the greater the love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.