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| 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 | |
| The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality | | George Eliot | |
| The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
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| The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. | | Bible | |
| The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. | | Pablo Picasso | |
| The soul can not think without a picture. | | Aristotle | |
| The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear | | Daniel Defoe | |
| The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest. | | Lord Byron | |
| The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. | | Jean Paul Richter | |
| There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. | | Jean Paul Richter | |
| There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery | | Joseph Conrad | |
| Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing. | | Blaise Pascal | |
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| What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories. | | George Eliot | |
| Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. | | Douglas MacArthur | |
