The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor Hugo
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through... →
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film... →
Isabelle Huppert
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.
M. F. Husain
We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they... →
Michael Hutchence