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Quotes About Spirits

Hunter's already low spirits plummeted. It was a sad state of affairs when an untried boy had more luck with women than a grown man.
~ Catherine Anderson
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
~ Catherine Helen Spence
here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men?
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Mixologist, n. person who complicates pouring alcohol.
~ Blind Date (Bravo), 2020
...an Angel convoying me to the abodes of the blessed on high to converse with the Spirits of just Men made perfect...
~ John Adams, 1818
Two Spirits at the childless widow's bed, Childless no more, have by the pitying heavens Been sent...
~ John Wilson, c.1831
Coffee much quickens the spirits and makes the heart lightsome.
~ An old coffee-house handbill
A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.
~ Joseph Addison
The spirits of the dead hallow a house, for me.
~ Mark Twain, 1909
Ghosts never appear on Christmas Eve.
~ English proverb, 1800s
There are more ghosts in an unwell body than in an entire haunted mansion.
~ Terri Guillemets
A cocktail or two, or several, I found, cheered me up for the foolishness of foolish people. A cocktail, or several, before dinner, enabled me to laugh whole-heartedly at things which had long since ceased being laughable. The cocktail was a prod, a spur, a kick, to my jaded mind and bored spirits.
~ Jack London
As imagination grew it is likely that the fear of death increased until the Folk that were to come projected this fear into the dark and peopled it with spirits.
~ Jack London
It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits.
~ James Clavell
Where are the blossoms of those summers!-fallen, one by one: so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of the spirits.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
~ Richard Curtis
It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground.
~ Deborah Cox
I don't believe that people die and come back as spirits, but I think there might be some unexplained events.
~ Nick Robinson
Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?
~ Confucius, Gespräche
Vodka is kind of a hobby.
~ Betty White
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
~ Samantha Shannon
Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of one would affect the diffusion of an infinity of others.
~ Giordano Bruno
All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.
~ Charles Spurgeon
There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
~ Roger Waters