"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
— Kahlil Gibrán

"A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper."
— Ursula K. Le Guin

"In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

"Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. "
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
— Ingmar Bergman

"Crap.
It's all crap.
Living is crap.
Life has no meaning.
None. Nowhere to be found.
Crap.
Why doesn't anybody realize this?"
— K-Ske Hasegawa (Ballad of a Shinigami, Vol. 1)

"Two turtle doves will show thee
Where my cold ashes lie
And sadly murmuring tell thee
How in tears I did die"
— Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

"Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers' hours..."
— Gabriel Thy

""I release the pain,
of a thousand tortured souls.""
— Karen Anderson Miller

""the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy""
— e.e. cummings

"'What question did you bring?' Bink inquired somewhat nervously...'I asked whether I have a soul,' the monster said seriously. Again Bink had to control his reaction. A year's service for a philosophical question? 'What did he tell you?' 'That only those who possess souls are concerned about them.' 'But--but then you never needed to ask. You paid a year for nothing.' 'No. I paid a year for everything. Possession of a soul means that I can never truly die. My body may slough away, but I shall be reborn, or if not, my shade will linger to settle unfinished accounts, or I shall reside forever in heaven or hell. My future is assured; I shall never suffer oblivion. There is no more vital question or answer. Yet that answer had to be in the proper form. A simple yes or no answer would not have satisfied me; it could be a blind guess, or merely the Magician's offhand opinion. A detailed technical treatise would merely have obfuscated the matter. Humfrey phrased it in such a way that its truth was self-evident. Now I need never doubt again.' Bink was moved. Considered that way, it did make sense. Humfrey had delivered good value. He was an honest Magician. He had shown the manticora--and Bink himself--something vital about the nature of life in Xanth. If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil? (141)."
— Piers Anthony (A Spell for Chameleon)

"We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try."
— Ekaterina Sedia (The Alchemy Of Stone)

"There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter (City of Souls)"
— Vicki Pettersson

"This quote was written by the Forth Teacher "Samuel"

"You are responsible for everything that you give out to others in your Earth Life that is Negative. If personal responsibility were taught at a Young Age maybe Souls would think twice before they act. The Greatest Reward you can ever receive is when you have cleared your slate for Good."
"
— Samuel