Soul Quotes

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.