But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.
—Philip Ó Ceallaigh
All writing, even the clumsy kind, exposes in its loops and slants a yearning deeper than an intention, the soul of the writer flopping on the clothes-peg of his exclamation mark.
—Paul Theroux
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
—Plato
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
—Joseph Addison
The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.
—Jodi Picoult in Mercy
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
—Torquato Tasso
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
—Anne Sexton
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
—Eugene V. Debs
Love is the beauty of the soul.
—Saint Augustine
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
—Henri Matisse
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
—Emily Bronte
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
—Iris Murdoch
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
—Joseph Joubert
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
—George Santayana