“And there’s many would tell you that every time you see a tree shaking there’s a ghost in it.”
Lady Gregory, Visions and Beliefs
Category Archives: Quotes
Is it not absurder still …
“Is it not absurder still to refuse to listen to these voices from afar, because they come stammering and wandering as in a dream confusedly instead of with a trumpet’s call? Because spirits that bending to earth may undergo perhaps an earthly bewilderment and suffer unknown limitations, and half remember and half forget?”
Lady Gregory, Visions and Beliefs
I was told by An Islander …
There are more of the Sheogue in America than what there are here, and more of other sort of spirits.
Lady Gregory, Visions and Beliefs
Loose dogs . . .
Loose dogs don’t follow rules. They aren’t predictable. They don’t keep to the sidewalks or respect property boundaries. They don’t come when called.
Loose dogs are elusive things.
— Paige Newbury
Overpromising
“The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.”
— Carl Jung
