Soul Quotes

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

Um, 'Soul Food'... Another wonderful little movie that could. Here's a film that, I think our budget was maybe $6 million. We shot it in Chicago in six weeks. I was so proud of the film, because it showed America that an African-American film about family could sell, could do well, could cross over and have true meaning.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

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

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.