Best Paganism Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“In Old High German and in Old English, geist and gaest did not designate a revenant as geist and ghost do today, and scato, "the shadow, did not apply to phantoms. We can deduce from this that revenants were not evanescent: they were not images or mists, but flesh and blood individuals, which is confirmed by the Norse literature and the rare texts from other Germanic countries.”

“WINTER'S GHOST:”

“I saw that there is no Nature,”

“He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!”

“The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.”

“It’s stranger than every strangeness”

“I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,”

“If science wants to be truthful,”

“She’s a manner of speaking.”

“I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.”

“All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,”

“Praise be to God I’m not good,”

“What does this think about that?”

“Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field”

“I was born subject like others to errors and defects,”

“Everything’s different from us. That’s why everything exists.”

“If I die very young, hear this:”

“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth.”

“Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.”

“All beings exist and nothing else”

“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;”

“Also at times, on the surface of streams,”

“There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?”

“Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.”

“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.”

“There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.”

“The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.”

“Live, you say, in the present;”

“...I don't believe in Him, and if He does exist, I don't like Him. His type of gods aren't gods who echo how mortals behave. They're gods who are held up as example of perfection to be emulated. They're not gods of the people. They're remote and inaccessible, they demand blind, unthinking obedience from their followers. They're dictators. We Aesir and Vanir, by contrast, are mirrors. Other gods rule. We reflect and magnify. We are you, only more so. We share your flaws and foibles. We are as humanlike as we are divine, and I think we are all the better for that.”

“A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy tales”