Quotes about Soul

The soul remains anchored. It is a balloon tied to a branch of bones. Still, it will tug nobly.

– Patrick White The Tree of Man

The sense of life’s continuity depended on trifling bodily impressions. The trivialities of daily existence were an armour for the soul.

– Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes

There is many a person whose soul has gone to sleep like a leg.

– Vladimir Nabokov “A Busy Man” in Details of a Sunset

For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities – the eternal past, the eternal future.

– Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin