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Quotes About Spirits

Finding beauty in spirituality means to become acquainted with the spirits. Thus, finding little interest in the world or frowning at the corporeal things.
~ Unknown
My main task is to enlighten the spirits and put all the dogmas to death.
~ Unknown
Sometimes the spirits want to possess the corporeal bodies. They also want to enjoy life in physical form.
~ Unknown
Out of a still, clear day, the wind suddenly picked up. It bowed the grass in his direction, unaccountably lifting his spirits and making him think that maybe she hadn't minded his devotion, after all.
~ Nancy Pickard
Relief and something like joy flew up inside Trevor's chest. They give us these miracles, these pardons, so generously, he thought; they crush our spirits like crashing boulders only to hold open their hands to give us jewels.
~ Nancy Thayer
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Ghosts were not the spirits of the dead returning but the memories of the living not yet laid to rest.
~ Nevada Barr
Over the past few years I have visited a great many residential homes, at home and abroad, and each time I step over the threshold I feel an anticipatory lowering of the spirits, a kind of muted dejection.
~ Unknown
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.
~ Unknown
That Great Cocktail Cabinet in the Sky...
~ Nigella Lawson
For all that is good, For all that is ours, Thanks to the spirits, Thanks to the Powers! (blessing over a meal)
~ Unknown
Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.
~ Ntozake Shange
Czy ludzie niecierpliwi nie przypominaj? duchów, które nigdy nie s? tu, w tym miejscu, i teraz, w tej w?a?nie chwili, ale wystawiaj? g?ow? z ?ycia jak ci w?drowcy, którzy podobno, gdy znale?li si? na ko?cu ?wiata, wyjrzeli poza horyzont.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It is poetry which effortlessly moves the heavens and the earth, awakens the world of invisible spirits to deep feeling, softens the relationship between men and women, and consoles the hearts of fierce warriors.
~ Ono no Komachi
because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
~ Paracelsus
Kyle took in a breath. "While you were doing freaky stuff with Adam—as fine as he is—did you figure out where he is?" I shook my head, and he sighed. "That's good." I raised my eyebrow. He grinned, tiredly. "That would have been useful, Mercy. And having something freaky and useful would have been too good and sent the spirits of evil gods on our tail." I stared at him.
~ Patricia Briggs
Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning." He paused and turned to looked at me, his brow furrowed. "I can't remember the rest of that. Can you?" "Never heard it before," I said. "But Teccam claims that out of all the spirits, only wine is suited to reminiscence. He said a good wine allows clarity and focus, while still allowing a bit of comforting coloration of the memory.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
But Teccam claims that out of all the spirits, only wine is suited to reminiscence. He said a good wine allows clarity and focus, while still allowing a bit of comforting coloration of the memory.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The Chelsea was like a doll's house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe. I wandered the halls seeking its spirits, dead or alive.
~ Patti Smith
The spirits rose like an ether that spun an arabesque and touched down as gently as a benevolent mask.
~ Patti Smith
I don't believe that ghosts are "spirits of the dead" because I don't believe in death. In the multiverse, once you're possible, you exist. And once you exist, you exist forever one way or another. Besides, death is the absence of life, and the ghosts I've met are very much alive. What we call ghosts are lifeforms just as you and I are.
~ Unknown
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
~ Paul Harris