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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Game

• Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

  

  John Keats
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Poetry

• It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Lessons
  • Roots

• The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Soul
  • Artist
  • Journey

• You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Way
  • Know
  • Fighting

• I might be a completely different kind of songwriter but I definitely think there are some things... I've taken pieces from different people that I've met and worked with along the way from the Killers experience, within the band and without.

  

  Mark Stoermer The Killers
  • People
  • Different
  • Songwriter

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

  

  Steven Erikson
  • Soul
  • Grief
  • Anguish