Soul quotes

Explore the depths of your existence with profound and introspective quotes about the soul - a divine essence that defines our purpose, passions, and true essence.

What do you say, Sam? A fiddle of gold against your soul says I'm better than you.

- Lucifer Morningstar

What is soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

- Ray Charles

Don't go backwards, you have already been there.

- Ray Charles

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

- William Hazlitt

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

- George Santayana

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

- Annette Bening

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

- Van Morrison

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.

- Arnold Bennett

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

- Max Beerbohm

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

- Daniel Defoe

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

- Omar Khayyam

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.

- Edward Bach

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

- Lou Rawls

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.

- James Brown

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

- Swami Vivekananda

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

- Earl Scruggs

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

- Wavy Gravy

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

- Francois Fenelon

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

- Honore De Balzac

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

- James Brown

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

- Douglas MacArthur

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

- Julia Ward Howe

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

- William Shirley

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

- Dean Inge

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

- Carl Jung

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

- Edvard Munch

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

- Marc Chagall

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

- Charles Bukowski

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

- Plato