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Quotes About Spirit

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
~ Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
~ Emily Dickinson
He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
~ Emily Dickinson
Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
~ Emily Dickinson
He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.
~ Emily Dickinson
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
~ Emily Dickinson
The soul should always stand ajar.
~ Emily Dickinson
The spirit looks upon the Dust That fastened it so long With indignation, As a Bird Defrauded of it's Song.
~ Emily Dickinson
Death is a Dialogue between The Spirit and the Dust. "Dissolve" says Death, The Spirit "Sir I have another Trust" - Death doubts it - Argues from the Ground - The Spirit turns away Just laying off for evidence An Overcoat of Clay.
~ Emily Dickinson
Death is a dialogue between The Spirit and the Dust. Dissolve says Death-The Spirit Sir I have another Trust-
~ Emily Dickinson
Noi che abbiamo l'Anima moriamo piú spesso
~ Emily Dickinson
Death is a dialogue between the spirit and the dust
~ Emily Dickinson
XXI. A BOOK. He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
~ Emily Dickinson
Ma c'è dell'altro? Oltre all'amore e alla morte? Allora dimmene il nome.
~ Emily Dickinson
Part Three: Love V DOUBT me, my dim companion! Why, God would be content With but a fraction of the love Poured thee without a stint. The whole of me, forever, 5 What more the woman can,— Say quick, that I may dower thee With last delight I own! It cannot be my spirit, For that was thine before; 10 I ceded all of dust I knew,— What opulence the more Had I, a humble maiden, Whose farthest of degree Was that she might 15 Some distant heaven, Dwell timidly with thee!
~ Emily Dickinson
What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
~ Emily Dickinson
He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
~ Emily Dickinson
A really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
~ Emily Giffin
Death, the Sun, the Lovers. Lots of major arcana. Your future's controlled by others. There's powerful people playing with it. You're gonna have to fight to get it back...this is the country of truth. There the Devil, the Star, the Tower. In this country of truth, where your spirit lives, your life still isn't your own. Other stronger spirits, or maybe gods--they've got the say in what happens to you.
~ Emma Bull
Just as religion has fettered the human mind, and as property, or the monopoly of things, has subdued and stifled man's needs, so has the State enslaved his spirit, dictating every phase of conduct. "All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.
~ Emma Goldman
Religion robs the soul of its independence; patriotism is the stupid worship of the world for which the well-being and the peace of the inhabitants were sacrificed by those who profit by it, while the laws of the land, in restraining natural desires, were waging war on the manifest spirit of the law of our beings. Compared with this, he concluded, thieving is an honorable pursuit.[5]
~ Emma Goldman
Anarchism does not stand for military drill and uniformity; it does, however, stand for the spirit of revolt, in whatever form, against everything that hinders human growth. All Anarchists agree in that, as they also agree in their opposition to the political machinery as a means of bringing about the great social change.
~ Emma Goldman
Some people ain't got no Riverbend in their soul.
~ Eoin Colfer
Un signo cierto de un espíritu incapaz es el de ocuparse mucho tiempo en el cuidado del cuerpo, así mismo como en el ejercicio, la bebida, el comer y en otras necesidades corporales. Estas cosas no deben ser lo principal, sino lo accesorio de nuestra vida.
~ Epícteto