SOUL QUOTES VII

quotations about the soul

How absurd it must seem for an immortal soul to be destined for Heaven or Hell, and yet be sitting in a kitchen, as a maid, or to see oneself objectified as a mechanic! how falsely the usual sunrise waked us, the clock dial, the city street the job! How wrongfully people find themselves in these systems--our time isn't there, our space isn't there, our space isn't even here, not even our name is there--the addressee for whom the alarm clock rings is identical to only a few, and the whole social story of waking, and certainly the day of the mechanic, is false.

ERNST BLOCH

Traces


To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

MURIEL SPARK

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie


The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

BIBLE

Proverbs 13:19

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Some men live altogether outside their own souls; some live altogether within their own souls; some pass out and in: these last are the best men.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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The mind as a glass, receives all images; and the soul becomes that with which it is in conjunction.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd. There seems an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the fall of butter, the tare on tallow, or the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit "petty expenses," and charge for "carriage paid"?

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

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There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 28, 1925

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Look how much the soul is better than the body; so much more grievous are the diseases of the soul than the griefs of the body.

DIOGENES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Soul is what you've been through
What's true for you
Where you going to
What you're gonna do

VAN MORRISON

"Soul"


I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.

WOODY ALLEN

Annie Hall

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For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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For it appears to be possible that a soul of a higher order may inhabit a body of a lower, and a soul of a lower order a body of a higher.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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The soul ties its shoe; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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Each man's soul is his genius.

XENOCRATES

attributed, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.

BIBLE

Matthew 10:28

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Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom