Top 100 Living Soul Quotes
#3. Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul
Carl Jung
#5. I am a living soul dwelling on a planet that is afloat in a universe radiant with life. I feel so small and at the same time so uniquely privileged to partake in that inconceivable mystery.
Yossi Ghinsberg
#6. John: "Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!"
Richard: "Let's strike a flint and see.
James Goldman
#8. O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.
Edward Dyer
#9. I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.
Anna Akhmatova
#10. You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.
Salil Jha
#11. Inanimate objects have a life of their own, especially when they are the daily companions of a living soul. Without that life, they take on a bleak, desolate appearance, like furniture piled up in a warehouse.
Jennifer Worth
#12. The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
John Calvin
#13. Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
Sally Mann
#14. Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
-William Wordsworth(Tintern Abbey)
William Wordsworth
#15. The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul.
Maxine Cheshire
#16. True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.
Carl Jung
#17. Spirit and body, when joined together, become a living soul of supernal worth.
Russell M. Nelson
#18. Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.
Haruki Murakami
#19. Maybe this was why people filled their house with stinking cats, so they didn't notice that they were alone, so they wouldn't die without a living soul noticing.
Kate Atkinson
#20. Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can
inhabit
Rafael Sabatini
#21. (I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#22. There are places in my heart ... where no living soul ... has ... or can ever ... trespass.
Harold Pinter
#23. After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?
Ernst Toller
#24. Almighty God, Who hast created man in Thine own image, and made him a living soul that he might seek after Thee, and have dominion over Thy creatures, teach us to study the works of Thy hands, that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen the reason for Thy service;
James Clerk Maxwell
#25. Never, even in the secrets of eternity, has the Lord said unto any living soul, Seek ye Me in vain.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#26. Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?
Henry: Not a living soul.
Ada: I thought as much. (Pause.) When we longed to have it to ourselves there was always someone. Now that it does not matter the place is deserted.
Samuel Beckett
#27. If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.
Charlotte Bronte
#28. Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of necessity unto his destined place, where the body, fast in its narrow bed, sleepeth after feast.
Chauncey Brewster Tinker
#29. Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Carl Jung
#30. Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#31. A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.
William Gilbert
#32. Lilah, there's not a living soul on this planet who shouldn't be afraid of Saint John.
Jonathan Maberry
#33. And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.
Emily Giffin
#34. We accept the responsibility to preach the gospel to every person on earth. And if the question is asked, you mean you are out to convert the entire world? The answer is, 'yes'. We will try to reach every living soul.
Boyd K. Packer
#35. In these books, there were spells and rituals for making a living soul something hungry and desperate like him, but he didn't find likelihood in any of them. All it told him was that man was terrified of nothing so much as death. Having died, he could think of dozens of things more worth his fear.
Thomm Quackenbush
#36. Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.
Phoebe Cary
#37. Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors.
Johannes Itten
#39. But every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human memories.
Jack Gantos
#40. When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#41. Here was the world wide-awake and yet only for me, all the fresh pure air only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by me, not a living soul hearing the nightingale but me, the sun in a few moments coming up to warm only me.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#42. Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.
Douglas Horton
#43. The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
Ernest Holmes
#44. The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
Horace Mann
#47. Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#48. You're as good as any other living soul on this earth. Whether other people know that or not doesn't really matter as long as you do.
Elizabeth Haydon
#49. The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx
#50. If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.
Laverne Cox
#51. The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from such souls. We need no proof of it for it is living all else is dead in comparison.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#52. Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. Speeding through life endangers our relationships and our souls.
Mike Yaconelli
#53. Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.
J.R. Rim
#55. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.
Andrew Ferguson
#56. The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.
Cesare Pavese
#57. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
John Milton
#59. At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
Andre Gide
#60. Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#62. Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#63. Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.
Gianna Carini
#64. Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.
Andre Simon
#66. Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful? 'Cause there's a hole where your soul should be, you're losing control of it, and it's really distasteful.
Lily Allen
#67. To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#68. And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.
Avijeet Das
#69. There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you.
Nikki Rowe
#70. To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead ... seek God within your own soul.
John Smith
#71. I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage.
Harold B. Lee
#72. Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#73. Our angels often come to us in the times when we are unconscious because those are the times we are free of the continual thoughts of our mind. It is here that we remember who we really are. We remember who we are in our soul. We are greater than the physical life we have been living on earth.
Kate McGahan
#75. Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and they have the power of affecting their welfare and their food and they flee from pain and death.
Nahmanides
#76. Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family.
Rosalind Lauer
#78. The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.
Joseph Campbell
#80. The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world.
Avijeet Das
#81. But it's hard to find your soul mate when everyone's so anonymous and living in their own private bubble worlds. It's not like you can just go up to a boy you like and say, Are you my soul mate?
Susane Colasanti
#82. Soon this mass of ideas became harmonized, took life, seemed, as it were, to become a living individual and moved in the midst of those domains of fancy, where the soul loves to give full rein to its wild creations.
Honore De Balzac
#83. Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.
Tom Robbins
#84. How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Robert Browning
#85. Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for. There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken!
Charles Dickens
#87. Living as an entity under a filled with stars sky and seeking for intuition, a voice whispers from your heart, for soul is unchained from whatever pulls it down, while what she is craving for is but only Ascension towards Divine .
Katerina Kostaki
#90. Science has proved there's nothing to the talk of ghosts and spirits, no proof anything like the soul exists. And to my mind that's an argument against the existence of an omniscient force. I think people believe whatever makes living easiest, and who am I to deny someone comfort?
Ann Aguirre
#91. Waning. He was perfectly safe there. Nor, indeed, was it the death of Basil Hallward that weighed most upon his mind. It was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his life.
Oscar Wilde
#92. Like butterflies, we evolve; but as Beings of Light we continuously evolve when we are fully present.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#93. Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs - and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.
Pawan Mishra
#94. With the harmonious balance between materialist nature and spiritual attitude, it is possible to be affluent yet with the soul of a saint. Such a state is a synthesis of matter and soul; the Rich Monk is a way to be rich in two ways.
Vishwas Chavan
#96. Sometimes living with memory, with the thought of what friends, those who shared your soul and dreams, will do to you is worse than taking a bullet or having someone stab your flesh. There is a way of bleeding from one's soul.
Megan McKenna
#99. Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people ... but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
Steve Maraboli
#100. Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul ... And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?
John Dos Passos
