“You fill my eager heart with such desire Every kiss you give sets my soul on fire I give myself in sweet surrender”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“show me the most damaged parts of your soul, and i will show you how it still shines like gold.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“When I write these notes, it is not to describe my own life. I am writing a study of the soul as I observe myself closely and use myself as an anatomical testing-ground. It would therefore be wrong to look on these notes as confessions.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“No one in art has yet penetrated as far as Dostoyevsky into the mystical realms of the soul, towards the metaphysical, the subconsciousness, viewing the external reality of the world as merely a sign, a symbol of the spiritual and metaphysical.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“Nothing ceases to exist – there is no example of this in nature.. .There is an entire mass of things that cannot rationally explained. There are newborn thoughts that have not yet found form. How foolish to deny the existence of the soul. After all, that a life has begun, that cannot be denied. It i…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“Film has dream, film has music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers looked breathless.”— Mary E. Pearson, amazon.com
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much.”— Emery Allen, emeryallen.tumblr.com
“I have a habit of falling in love with souls who have yet to be at peace with their bodies, their minds, their weaknesses. I try to build them, to find the parts of them that are missing in me. I end up with holes in my chest.”— Farah Gabdon, thegabdonwrites.tumblr.com
“As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“We take nothing from the womb but pure filth [meras sordes]. The seething spring of sin is so deep and abundant that vices are always bubbling up form it to bespatter and stain what is otherwise pure.... We should remember that we are not guilty of one offense only but are buried in innumerable impu…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“But now, although some obscure lineaments of that image are found remaining in us; yet are they so vitiated and maimed, that they may truly be said to be destroyed. For besides the deformity which everywhere appears unsightly, this evil also is added, that no part is free from the infection of sin.”— John Calvin, amazon.com