Metaphisical Quotes & Sayings

stirs the fire below them with a steel pole; a — Anthony Doerr

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. — William Dunbar

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree. — Julian Fellowes

Not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds from disorder. — Lao-Tzu

The eyelids confess, and reject, and refuse to reject. They have expressed all things ever since man was man. And they express so much by seeming to hide or to reveal that which indeed expresses nothing. For there is no message from the eye. It has direction, it moves, in the service of the sense of sight; it receives the messages of the world. But expression is outward, and the eye has it not. There are no windows of the soul, there are only curtains ... — Alice Meynell

The duke's eyes were dark, but there was a glaze there. Pride in his dark son. — Anne Mallory

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. — Alice Hoffman

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration. — Gwendolyn Brooks

It wasn't all misery. On one of our halts we lay spreadeagled on the ice and stared up at a sky blazing with the glory of the most wonderful aurora I'd ever witnessed. I groaned beneath the splendour of those silken curtains, yellow, green, and orange, billowing at the window of the heavens. — Beryl Bainbridge

God made man because He loves stories — Yiddish Proverb