Quotes about Soul
Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
— Jack Kerouac
Allen was "queer in those days, experimenting with himself to the hilt, and Neal saw that, and a former boyhood hustler himself in the Denver night, and wanting dearly to learn how to write poetry like Allen, the first thing you know he was attacking Allen with a great amorous soul such as only a conman can have.
— Jack Kerouac
I want to marry a girl, I told them, so I can rest my soul with her till we both get old.
— Jack Kerouac
Dean pointed out with a grimace of pain. "It's not the kind of sweat we have, it's oily and it's always there because it's always hot the year round and she knows nothing of non-sweat, she was born with sweat and dies with sweat." The sweat on her little brow was heavy, sluggish; it didn't run; it just stood there and gleamed like a fine olive oil. "What that must do to their souls! How different they must be
— Jack Kerouac
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk-real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
— Jack Kerouac
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
— Teresa of Avila
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
— George Eliot
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
— Khalil Gibran
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
— Bob Marley
The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
— Epicurus
Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.
— Paulo Coelho
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
— Victor Hugo