Bogs Quote by Barry Hannah

The human soul is an abyss

— Fernando Pessoa

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives…

— Haruki Murakami

We are individualized aspects of that oversoul, and the individualized soul - yours and mine and everyone else's on the planet - incarnates over…

— Benjamin Creme

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For what is the human body, with its branching veins and winding bowels and many-chambered heart, if not a Labyrinth?”

— Seamus Sullivan

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

— William Godwin

Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

— Ann Rinaldi

Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible…

— Eckhart Tolle

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

— E. M. Forster

We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is…

— Jack Gilbert

“The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These plethoras…

— Victor Hugo