Spirits Quotes

786 quotes by 620 authors

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence,… — Jean Cocteau
If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form… — Julian Barnes
America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by… — Martin Amis
I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of… — M.F.K. Fisher
Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their… — C.S. Lewis
The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality,… — Jose Saramago
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly… — C.S. Lewis
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows… — Friedrich Nietzsche
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. — Gustave Flaubert
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have… — John Taylor Gatto
Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of… — Jeanne DuPrau
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he… — Henry Miller
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at… — C.S. Lewis
We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to… — Mark Helprin
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for… — Charlotte Bronte
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which… — Aleister Crowley
Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with… — Benjamin Hoff
I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that,… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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