Human Soul Quotes - Page 4

• In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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• A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

  Saul Bellow

  Sick, Soul, Desire

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.13, Penguin

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• 'You hate America, don't you?'
  'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Hate, Real

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.

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• Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Soul, Style

  "Taking Sock" by Jaron Lanier, www.wired.com. January 1, 1998.

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• There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls

  Max Planck

  Religious, Real, Thinking

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lonely, Home, Dust

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• Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love Is, Bullshit, Soul

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

  Vaclav Havel

  Soul, Humans, Darkest Times

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• I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

  David O. McKay

  Soul, Secret, Important

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• Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,—but she always pays.

  William George Jordan

  Spiritual, Character, Fighting

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• Pulling out his daggers, he kept them in his sleeves, just in case he happened upon someone who wouldn’t understand why a tall, dark-haired man wearing really dark sunglasses and unseasonably warm clothing would be armed to his fangs. Really, Officer, I was trying to protect humanity by killing these things that suck human souls out to live past their twenty-seventh birthday just didn’t cut it. Why no one would believe that, he couldn’t imagine. Really, the audacity of modern courts and judges.’ – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Cutting, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this throne is yielded to the Almighty God, a man enters upon the sacred path of greatness right then and there...The destiny of a human soul depends entirely on who sits upon the throne of that soul...when the flesh is removed from its position of power, the human soul is made ready to usher in the glory of its true and rightful King

  Eric Ludy

  Kings, Greatness, Destiny

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• Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Easter, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Doubt, Way

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Thinking, Soul, Survival

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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• The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Race, Wind

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.200, Anchor

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• Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

  Victor Hugo

  Evil, Soul, Elements

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• Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fun, Plato, Soul

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• I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

  D. J. MacHale

  Dark, People, Greed

  D.J. MacHale (2002). “The Merchant of Death”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• The human soul is an abyss

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Abyss, Humans

  Fernando Pessoa (2006). “A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems”, p.185, Penguin

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• I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls.

  Emma Forrest

  Believe, Soul, Finding Yourself

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.198, A&C Black

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• The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Soul, Perception, Flesh

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Blood, Knives, Voice

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “The Little Mermaid: English & Bulgarian”, p.16, Hans Christian Andersen

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• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

  Edward Carpenter

  Eye, Animal, Soul

  Edward Carpenter, Tony Brown (1990). “Edward Carpenter and Late Victorian Radicalism”, p.40, Psychology Press

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