Human Soul Quotes - Page 8

• This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

  Aberjhani

  Strong, Valentine, Unconditional Love

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

  John Steinbeck

  Fighting, Winning, Unique

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• "I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness," he breathed. "Not until the moment you touched me in your store. My life is violent and dangerous. It's dark and twisted and no place for someone like you. I have more people wanting me dead than I can count. They will stop at nothing, and you.." He ground his teeth before he spoke again. "You'll never want again for anything in your life. I swear it on what little bit of human soul I have left."

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Hands, People

  "Night Play". Book by Sherrilyn Kenyon, 2010.

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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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• The things that really shake the human soul aren't beauty or kindness. Although such things are certainly moving, but those feelings don't last long. But... anger or sadness are different. They leave an undelible mark. Even after the wound heals... you can never forget the pain completely.

  Fuyumi Soryo

  Kindness, Pain, Moving

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• He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pain, Soul, Might

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

  Alfred Adler

  God, Stars, Fate

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• Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Enthusiasm For Life, Long

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 20, 2017

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• His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Song, Lying, Air

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Disgrace”, p.4, Random House

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• This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.

  Halldór Laxness

  Beautiful, Song, Memories

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• The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Soul, Quests, Humans

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• At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.

  Immanuel Kant

  Communication, Earth Life, Soul

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• Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.

  Antonin Kratochvil

  Artist, Soul, Said

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• The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

  Joseph Stalin

  Soul, Humans, Engineers

  "Stalin and the Literary Intelligentsia" by А. Kemp-Welch, Basingstoke and London, (pp. 12-31), 1991.

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