Kurt Cobain

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

American Singer

Terry Pratchett

Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

English Author

Virginia Woolf

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

British Author

Plato

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Greek Philosopher

T. S. Eliot

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

American Poet

Vincent Van Gogh

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Dutch Painter

George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Spanish Painter

Langston Hughes

Edgar Allan Poe

Often used in discussions about afterlife, morality, or spirituality.

Religious Context

Used when debating the existence, nature, and purpose of a soul.

Philosophical Discussions

Can represent depth of character or an individual's essence.

Metaphorical Use

Used to denote deep emotions or sensitivity.

Emotional Depth

May refer to the collective spirit or character of a community.

Cultural Significance

Used informally to refer to someone's presence or lack thereof.

Colloquial Expression

Refers to a genre that combines elements of African-American gospel, rhythm and blues.

Music Genre

Soul music is designed to reach and move the listener's innermost feelings.

Evokes Emotions

Represents the most important or fundamental part of something.

Symbolic Core

Often used to personify abstract qualities or virtues.

Personified Qualities

 is not something that is just there for you to discover, you don't sort of look into your soul and find your true self, What you are partly doing, at least, is actually creating your true self. And this, I think, is very, very significant, particularly at this stage of life you're at. You'll be aware of the fact

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 according to our place in society without worrying how things turn out. When we die, we are reincarnated into a new body. If we followed our dharma and did our proper duty in our past life, we get good karma, which sends our soul upward in the social scale. Our rebirth into the next life

The five major world...

 to how we raise kids. Thus, some argue that the feeling you think you feel in your soul is just biology's way to make you continue our species. Nature has selected you to have crushes on hotties, just like it makes monkeys have crushes on hot monkeys, and biology marches on.

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 the human body and soul were controlled by four fluids, known as humors, and their balance directly influenced a person's health and temperament. Melancholia comes from melaina kole, the word for black bile, the humor believed to cause sadness.

A brief history of...

 hidden right underneath the bridge which transmits the vibration of the strings to the body of the instrument the soul is what allows the violin to resonate to reach out into the world what then if we were to reach out to if we were to let

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 because it was like diving on a grave site you do feel like you're visiting the souls of your ancestors when you're dead and it's just difficult to explain the feeling sorrow anger disgust and you feel sort of feeling helplessness we

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 Afraid of being eaten, or just to avoid further suffering, they committed suicide or starved themselves, believing that in death, their souls would return home. Those who survived were completley dehumanized, treated as mere cargo.

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 People don't quite realize how slow. Sloths are obviously renowned for being slow. But when your life and your work kind of revolves around them, the slowness, it feels soul destroying. But in the loveliest way.

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 The noble lie he proposed was that we're all born with gold, silver, or a mixture of brass and iron in our souls, which determine our roles in life. Some thinkers have gone on to credit the idea of the noble lie

Plato’s best (and worst)...

 uncover your soul. when things get difficult or painful, try to stay open. And every now and then, step off your hamster wheel into deep time. Those lessons have served me throughout my life,

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