Soul Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

34 Soul Quotes
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“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
C.S. Lewis Quotes
“There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands”
C.S. Lewis Quotes
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent van Gogh Quotes
“Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see”
William Newton Clarke Quotes
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle Quotes
“This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all; Fire and sleete, and candle lighte And Christe receive thye saule.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: Lyke-Wake Dirge (vol. III, p. 163), in Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Border" (T.F. Henderson's edition)
“Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate; Naked, along, undefended, I knock at the Uttermost Gate. Behind is life and its longing, Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow, Beyond is the Infinite Morning Of a day without a tomorrow.”
Wenonah Stevens Abbott Quotes
Source: A Soul's Soliloquy
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: in the "Spectator", no. 215
“But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
“And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul Before we die.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes
Source: A Southern Night (st. 18)
“But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes
Source: Switzerland (pt. VI)
“The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. [Lat., Anima certe, quia spiritus, in sicco habitare non potest; ideo in sanguine fertur habitare.]”
Saint Aurelius Augustine Quotes
Source: Decretum (IX, 32, 2)
“A soul as white as Heaven.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: The Maid's Tragedy (act IV, sc. 1)
“And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Luke (ch. XII, v. 19)
“In your patience possess ye your souls.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Luke (ch. XXI, v. 19)
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Bible Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XVI, v. 26)
“The iron entered into his soul.”
Bible Quotes
Source: in the "Psalter", Psalms (ch. CV, v. 18)
“My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. CXIX, v. 109)
“John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave, His soul goes marching on.”
Thomas Brigham Bishop Quotes
Source: John Brown's Body
“And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.”
Robert Browning Quotes
Source: Cleon
“And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 203)