#natura

One day you see a man walking down the road, the next day you come to his yard and find him dead... Why is it that he cannot do what the living do? It is because the thing that gave power to these parts is no longer there. That is the duppy, and that is the most powerful part of any man. Everybody has evil in them, and when a man is alive... he will not abandon himself to many evil things. But when the duppy leaves the body, it no longer has anything to restrain it and it will do more terrible things than any man ever dreamed of. - From 'Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica', Zora Neale Hurston, 1938 ↗

— Charles A. Cornell

#occult #supernatural #thriller #dreams

When Carri died, I felt like I had lost everything, except my life, and my memories of her. Now I can’t even dream of her... ↗

— Richard Finney

#suspense #thriller #dreams

Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous, still a love of the supernatural lingers among the more mountainous districts of the northern kingdom; for 'the Schoolmaster' finds it no easy task, even when aided by all the light of science, to uproot the prejudices of more than two thousand years. ("The Phantom Regiment") ↗

— James Grant

#scots #scotsman #scottish #supernatural #superstition

People have a hunger to experience the spectacular, but the Lord is supernatural. ↗

— Sherry K. White

#kingdom-of-god #spectacular #supernatural #experience

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#characteristic #direction #historical #ignorance #just

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#appearances #both #causes #explain #more

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did. ↗

— Harold Nicholas

#asked #ballet #brother #copied #dancer

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts. ↗

— Richard Owen

#before #darwin #elude #facts #history

I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#both #brought #generation #heightened #i

Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#health #incredible #like #me #models