Soul Quotes

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

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?

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

I don't think I do have a soul.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.