Soul Quotes - Page 252

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Afflictions clarify the soul.

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

Tomorrow I too – this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself – yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks these streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?” And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other.

I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul

I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.

Rejection is good for the soul.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.

Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -