Spirits Quotes
786 quotes by 620 authors
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Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional…
— Albert Einstein
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But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start…
— Jim Butcher
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There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be…
— George MacDonald
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When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
— John Milton
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Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits…
— Dan Brown
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If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly       And my low spirits would brighten up.
— Anna Akhmatova
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There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the…
— Charles Dickens
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Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?†asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all…
— Ted Hughes
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Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and…
— Piers Anthony
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Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic,…
— Ntozake Shange
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I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said!…
— Melina Marchetta
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I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people’s spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the…
— John O'Donohue
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Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate her exhibiting a…
— Franny Billingsley
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