soul searching quotes

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.