77 Old Soul Quotes

Following is our list of old soul quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about young with an old soul.

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Famous Old Soul Quotes

We all have souls of different ages — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. — Oscar Wilde

A dog has the soul of a philosopher. — Plato

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it — Charles Bukowski

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. — Charles Bukowski

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles. — Rumi

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing. — Stephane Mallarme

Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love. — Rumi

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul! — Allen Ginsberg

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand. — Rumi

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. — George Sand

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. - Omar Khayyam

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. — Omar Khayyam

You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego. — Michael Dolan

Great souls endure in silence. — Friedrich von Schiller

Short Old Soul Quotes

  • A certain blue enters your soul — Henri Matisse
  • Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. — Epictetus
  • Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao Tzu
  • Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao Tzu
  • The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship. — Epicurus
  • The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. — William Wordsworth
  • A heart that loves is always young. — Proverbs
  • Always have old memories, and young hopes. — Arsene Houssaye
  • The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin. — Jessie Andrews

Old Soul Image Quotes

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. - Victor Hugo quote

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. — Victor Hugo

Old soul quote Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.
Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.

Having An Old Soul Quotes

Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity. — H. P. Blavatsky

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can. — Elizabeth Gillies

I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a Method actor or an old soul. It doesn't stay with me. — Karen Gillan

Old soul quote Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul. — Eric Clapton

I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies. — Jennifer Lawrence

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that. — Hillary Scott

Old soul quote You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion. — Ernest Dowson

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More Old Soul Quotes

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. — Nikola Tesla

If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away. — Neem Karoli Baba

Old soul quote Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.
Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.

The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth. — Winona LaDuke

Old soul quote Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. — Samuel Ullman

A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul — Tupac Shakur

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards. — Anandamayi Ma

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world. — Jack Hyles

Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil! — Octavius Winslow

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you. — Johnny Appleseed

The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too. — Bobby Jones

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness. — George Sand

Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind...each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth. So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...let your roots creep forth, gaining strength. — Emily Carr

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold. — Francois Mauriac

At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips. — Allen Johnson

I met this girl when I was ten years old, And what I loved most she had so much soul. She was old school, when I was just a shorty Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me. — Common

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul. — Stephenie Meyer

I find I'm an old soul. — Rachel Roy

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

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll. — Bob Seger

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather. — Pema Chodron

Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and an aroma of death to others. — Dan B. Allender

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. — Franz Kafka

I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body. — Giordano Bruno

That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old. — Nainoa Thompson

The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul. — Sarah Moore Grimke

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then! — Allen Ginsberg

The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things. — Kenneth Anger

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul — Victor Hugo

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally. — Ram Dass

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race. — Stanley Kunitz

Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery.But yours the cold heart, and the murderous tongue,The wintry soul that hates to hear a song,The close-shut fist, the mean and measuring eye,And all the little poisoned ways of wrong. — Omar Khayyam

If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force. — Sri Aurobindo

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. — Phillips Brooks

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal. — Saoirse Ronan

To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet — Li Bai

We always have to choose to live our lives to the fullest. No one is better or worse than anyone else. We are different and beautiful. — Mattie Stepanek

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. — Horace

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. — Jawaharlal Nehru

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