Soul Quotes - Page 281

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.

Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.

Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.

Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

It is from out of the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am nothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul. God comes in, and is everyone in me.

The first time I ever thought about doing a film seriously, I was in London. I was about 17 years old. I was just standing in the street, a bit dazzled by an Antonioni bus wipe, which by the way are inherent in London, and I imagined a film set in London starting out with the riff from The Yardbird's "Heart Full of Soul", and now, how ever many years later, I've done it.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom--whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!