"I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune."
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"Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low."
"Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?"
"I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That's when I know my soul is restless."
"When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?"
"Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business."
"Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking."
"The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit."
"The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love."
"To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed."
"All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60."
"Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road."
"Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille."
"Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal."
"The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic."
"Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust."
"Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul."
"Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction."
"He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts."
"Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul."