Blood Quote by Saint Augustine

The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity.

— Nathaniel Culverwell

Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through…

— Hans Christian Andersen

...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

— Moses

The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

— Giordano Bruno

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

— Marcus Aurelius

But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that…

— Taylor Caldwell

There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells…

— Meister Eckhart

“your soul is dust to me. I will swallow you whole.”

— Miyuki Miyabe

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

— Lord Byron

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

As the soul, itself invisible, is seen by what it does through the body.

— Johann Albrecht Bengel