Quote by Gordon White

The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't…

— Rob Brezsny

khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.

— Cassandra Clare

“Tull stopped laughing and stared into Loken’s face. His blue eyes were terribly cold and hard. ‘Kaos is the damnation of all mankind, Loken.…

— Dan Abnett

“The Greek word epos means simply “word” or “story” or “song.” It is related to a verb meaning “to say” or “to tell,” which…

— Homer

“Chant to see your kyo’, said Dick when I posed this second question. ‘Kyo is the final syllable of Nam myoho renge kyo, and…

— Frank Kusy

Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“ἐλθέ: καὶ σκιὰ φάνηθί μοι: ἅλις γὰρ ἐλθὼν κἂν ὄναρ γένοιο σύ: Vrati se! Makar kao sen, makar kao san!”

— Euripides

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

— Gunter Grass

There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

— Tim Sandlin

Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.

— Terence McKenna

“After he cut off their genitals, Chronos threw them into the sea, where they floated in a "white foam." Out of this foam‒or "Aphros”…

— Charles River Editors