Quotes About Spirits

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 tended their seeds.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.

Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things.

I believe that you meet people who are vital to your transformation only when the conditions are right, when the tenacious concerns of the unconscious break into awareness. Then such kindred spirits are drawn to each other like iron shavings to a magnet.

They also thought there were spirits called 'daimons' around. Some were good and protected you; some were evil and could lead you into wickedness.

I think we were all living with this cloud of depression over us that would forever linger, so whilst I can take or leave the content, if the joy is a false dawn or one that will never see the light of day, then so be it. If our spirits are momentarily lifted then that, I think is fine. We have, of course, had a lifetime to mull it over.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

We like talking so much because we hope by our conversations to gain some mutual comfort, and because we seek to refresh our wearied spirits by variety of thoughts. And we very willingly talk and think of those things which we love or desire, or else of those which we most dislike.

Indeed, the commotion of the spirits and humors may be so great that such appearances may even occur to those who are awake, as is seen in mad people, and the like. So, as this happens by a natural disturbance of the humors, and sometimes also by the will of man who voluntarily imagines what he previously experienced, so also the same may be done by the power of a good or a bad angel, sometimes with alienation from the bodily senses, sometimes without such alienation.

Also pertinent to these spirits is the execution of divine works which are done outside the order of nature, for these are most sublime among the divine ministrations... And if there be anything else that is universal and primary in the carrying out of divine ministrations, it is proper to assign it to this order.

Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live; and unto such as consider none hereafter, it must be more than death to die, which makes us amazed at those audacities that durst be nothing and return into their chaos again. Certainly such spirits as could contemn death, when they expected no better being after, would have scorned to live, had they known any.

Now that I am calmer I see the absolute impossibility of going on leading a life which was killing her & driving me nearly mad. For to keep up your spirits & a laughing face while ruin is staring you in the eyes & misery is tearing your heart to pieces is a struggle which is fruitless . . . My last years have been a living hell to me.

In the outside world, he said, people were visited in their houses by spirits they called television. Spirits spoke to people through what they called the radio.

Did you know the Death Star had a bar? Ugly, austere little place – really like all Imperial architecture, ugh – and the selection of spirits was hardly commendable.

By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without. Noble

By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without.

We had a friendly conversation, the man shook my hand, told me to keep my spirits up........ The next day......He stared ahead as he went past, as much a stranger as possible. In his behaviour the man probably represents 79 million Germans.

Quisque suos patimur manes.

it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.

We have some of the meanest spirits among us on earth. The net has halled in good and bad

The viola da gamba sonatas, the same recording he was listening to now. Vittorio Ghielmi on gamba and Lorenzo Ghielmi on the fortepiano. He loved this recording for its clarity, and for its combination of melancholy and high spirits.

Humanity is living in a virtual reality universe, a video game created by a civilization 1,000 to 100,000 years older than the human race. And they themselves are also simulations (virtual reality). These levels of hierarchies can extend to a vast degree above us, creating levels of gods or spirits.