Dread Quote by Epictetus

After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which…

— Saul Bellow

Afflictions clarify the soul.

— Francis Quarles

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless…

— Novalis

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

— Francois Fenelon

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

— Socrates

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.

— Albert Einstein

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition…

— Franz Kafka

My tormented soul flees from my body as the pain of losing you becomes too hard to handle.

— Anonymous

“The soul suffers to the pain for the neglect of the spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“In a world grown paralyzed with introspection and constipated by delicate mental meals this brutal exposure of the substantial body comes as a vitalizing…

— Henry Miller

We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment…

— Larry Crabb