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| Alla har vi dödliga kroppar, sammansatta av strunt, men själen lever för evigt: det är portionen av husets godaste i vår kropp. | Flavius Josephus |
| Av alla själens egenskaper är dumheten den som mest bidrar till livets lycksalighet. | Johan T. Oxenstierna (1666-1733) |
| Bättre en skrynkla i själen än ett slätstruket liv. | Ordspråk från Kina |
| Den levande känner inte sin själ, den döde inte sin kropp. | Ordspråk från Kina |
| Det finns människor som visserligen har odlat sin själ - men aldrig rensat bort ogräset. | Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) |
| Det finns släktskap mellan själen och stjärnorna. | Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) |
| Det talas inte så mycket om själavandring nu när varenda själ har bil. | Tage Danielsson (1928-1985) |
| Det är livet och inte döden som skiljer själen från kroppen. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Din själ kröp in i min som en mask i äpplet, åt och åt, grävde och grävde, tills det bara var skalet kvar med litet svart mjöl. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| En flicka, som till kropp och själ blottar sig för sin älskare, blottar hela det kvinnliga släktets hemligheter; varje flicka förvaltar de kvinnliga mysterierna. Det finns platser där bondflickorna ser ut som drottningar. Det gäller både kropp och själ. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| En hund har en filosofs själ. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| En hund har en filosofs själ. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| En hustru är bra för kroppen, men inte för själen. | Carl Hammarén (1922-1990) |
| En naken själ kan vara oändligt mycket mer oanständig än en naken kropp. | Carl Hammarén (1922-1990) |
| För att få ett alldeles jämnt humör måste man gå omkring med en tandställning i själen. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Hans hud var vit, hans ögon blå, men själen, den var svart. | Evert Taube (1890-1976) |
| Jag har känt den ånger, den vilda rädsla, som kommer när själen är satt i spel. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Jag tror på själavandring. Men inte efter döden. | Sven Lidman (1881-1960) |
| Jag är fri som en fågel, och dock fånge och träl. jag äger ej något, men någon har min själ. | Sven Lidman (1881-1960) |
| Kvinnosjälens rike är ingen mans land. | Ordspråk från Turkiet-Armenien |
| Kärleken är själens tandvärk. | Ordspråk från Turkiet-Armenien |
| Livet har tusen liv, döden har tusen dödar - Det grymmaste livet, den grymmaste döden: att överleva sig själv, sittande i själens rullstol. | Margareta von Konow (1917-) |
| Man skickar inte sin själ som sin kostym till en tvättinrättning för att få den färgad efter modernare krav. | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| Musik: hälsokost för själen. | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| Människan är den bästa bilden på den mänskliga själen. | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| Papperskorg: själens spottkopp. | Fliegende Blätter |
| Samvete är det som gör ont i själen när det gör gott i kroppen. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Själen går på krokiga stigar. Lär och läs dess språk. Förstå den! | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Själen har inget kön. | Kristina Augusta (1626-1689) |
| Själen kan också vara en erogen zon. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| Själen är det enda du kan sälja och likaväl behålla. Därför är det så många som säljer den. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| Spannet mellan förr och nu. Varför kan jag inte radera bort alla plumpar på min själ? | Sigbjorn Obstfelder (1866-1900) |
| Tron om själens odödlighet är på samma gång den mest tröstrika och den mest nedtryckande idé som människoanden har uppfunnit. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Två själar bor det i mitt bröst och de är åtskilda till mina dagars ände. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Universums djup är oss mer bekant än djupet av vår egen själ. | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| Vad som gäller vid fiske gäller också för själarnas flöten. Den som är nedtyngda bör lättas, de som är lätta och bara guppar bör tyngas av sänket. | Joseph Roux (1834-1905) |
| Vad är kärlek? Två själar och en kropp. Vad är vänskap? Två kroppar och en själ. | Joseph Roux (1834-1905) |
| Var finns de yllevantar som skyddar oss mot själens frossa? | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Varför ska vi alltid gå till ytterligheter? Varför kan vi aldrig gå till innerligheter? | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Våra själar behöver kläder lika väl som våra kroppar. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Hjernen er et organ af mindre betydning, sjælen sidder i hjertet, som styrer kroppen. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Vore sjæle er lettere end vore kroppe. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Sjælen er den eneste artikel,som man kan sælge og alligevel beholde. Derfor er der så mange, der sælger den. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| Sjælen er født gammel men bliver vedvarende yngre. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Mange åbne sind burde lukkes på grund af reparation. | Toledo Blade |
| Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. | Edwin Markham (1852-1940) |
| Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last | George Swinnock |
| It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back | Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) |
| Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. | Jaron Lanier (1960-) |
| Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. | King Solomon |
| Oh, that curdles my soul. | Lynne Bien |
| Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues. | Nick Hornby |
| he can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never! | Penelope Cruz (1974-) |
| To be somebody you must last. | Ruth Gordon (1896-1985) |
| Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. | Wayne Dyer (1940-1940) |
| There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. | Woody Hayes (1913-1987) |
| The eyes are the mirror of the soul | Yiddish Proverb |
| You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| 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 (1660-1731) |
| A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. | Edward Young (1683-1765) |
| The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| 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, unspe | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902) |
| Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry. | Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957) |
| Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave | Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) |
| The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable | Theodore Parker |
| Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. | Wayne Dyer (1940-1940) |
| Music fills the infinite between two souls | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| 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 (1802-1885) |
| This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body | De Saint-Real |
| Laughter is the spark of the soul | Woody Hayes (1913-1987) |
| There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. | Woody Hayes (1913-1987) |
| A home without books is a body without soul. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. | Martha Graham (1894-1991) |
| The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| It is only to the individual that a soul is given. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. | Alexander Smith (1830-1867) |
| The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask | Ani diFranco (1970-) |
| "Na Hanyate Hanyamane Sarire""Consciousness is eternal it is not vanquished with the destruction of the temporary body" | Bhagavad Gita |
| Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling (1 Samuel 25:29). | Bible |
| If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose | Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) |
| The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. | Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) |
| Drop anchor anywhere and the anchor will drag - that is, if soul is a limitless, fathomless sea, and not a dog pond | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| Little soul, wandering , gentle guest and companion of my body, into what places will you now go, pale, stiff, and naked, no longer sporting as you did. | Hadrian |
| Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| The human voice is the organ of the soul | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| Oh soul,you worry too much.You have seen your own strength.You have seen your own beauty.You have seen your golden wings.Of anything less,why do you worry?You are in truththe soul, of the soul, of the soul. | Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) |
| 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 (1763-1825) |
| People living their lives for you on TVThey say they're better than you and you agreeHe says "Hold my calls for me I must go"The boss says "Come here boy, there ain't nothin' for free"Another doctor's bill, another lawyer's billAnother cute cheap thrillYou know you love him if you put in your willWho will save your soul when it comes to the flowerWho will save your soul after all the lies that you told, boyWho will save your soul if you won't save your own?We try to hustle them, try to bustle them, try to cuss themThe cops want someone to bust down on Orleans AvenueAnother day, another dollar, another war, another towerWent up where the homeless had their homesSo we pray to as many different God's as there are flowersBut we call religion our friendWe're so worried about saving our soulsAfraid that God will take His tollThat we forget to beginWho will save your soul when it comes to the flowerWho will save your soul after all the lies that you told, boyWho will save your soul if you won't save your own?Some are walking, some are talking, some are stalking their killYou got social security, but that don't pay your billsThere are addictions to feed and there are mouths to paySo you bargain with the Devil, say you're o.k. for today,You say that you love them, take their money and runSay it's been swel, sweetheart, but it was just one of those thingsThose flings, those strings you've got to cut,So get out on the streets, girls, and bust you butts.Who will save you soul when it comes to the flowerWho will save you soul after all the lies that you told, boyWho will save your soul if you won't save you own? | Jewel (1974-) |
| Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower / Went up where the homeless had their home. | Jewel (1974-) |
| Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own webs from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished | Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
| 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 (1857-1924) |
| Every man I believe that God has given a Divine spark of soul. | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-) |
| One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. | Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) |
| The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| To possess taste, one must have some soul. | Vauvenargues, Marquis de (1715-1747) |
| One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting | Woody Allen (1935-) |