Steven Erikson Quotes

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

Steven Erikson

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• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • For Her

• If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Soul
  • Me

• The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Whatever

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Disease

• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Grief
  • Where
  • Fresh

• No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Mind
  • Power

• The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Soul

• The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Faith

• The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Honor

• Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Psychology

• There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Mother
  • Grief

• I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

  

  James Corden
  • Soul

• I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Life
  • Why
  • Soul

• Really, what I'm trying to do is make soul music, but I don't even think of it as a genre. It's more of a feeling.

  

  Kaytranada
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Soul

• I have less to do with 'The Simpsons' every season, but I stick my nose in here and there. Basically, it's just trying to keep the characters consistent and making sure the show has a soul.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Trying
  • Soul

• 'It’s Charlie’s soul,' he repeated. 'Or more accurately, it’s a holographic representation of the dynamic electrical system that embodies the consciousness of Charles Boutin.'

  

  John Scalzi
  • Soul

• Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world.

  

  James Freeman Clarke
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• I was quite nervous in my first week at Barcelona, but after that, I was relaxed.

  

  Neymar

• I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoyed it is because the depth of stories you can tell is pretty endless with space and everything.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

  

  Steven Erikson
  • Soul
  • Grief
  • Anguish