Quotes About Spirits

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

It was suitably like limbo to depress the spirits of an ordinary man, let alone one with Alec's problems.

You see, Miss Mina, the air is thick with the spirits of the young sailors and fishermen who died in the sea. They still yearn for the love and touch of beautiful women, young men that they were when they were forced to leave their bodies and earthly pleasure behind. I tell you this to warn you, beauty that you are with your jet-colored hair and your lovely skin more pure and delicious than the top of the cream, and those eyes of yours that stole their green from a sultan's emerald.

Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.

Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.

My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

Words are powerful vibrations, use words to uplift your spirits and heal yourself.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.