Barry Hannah Quotes

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.

That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?

God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.

Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul

There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.