Quotes About Anima

#1. For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world.

Carl Jung

#2. The Goddess is the macrocosmic and microcosmic anima, as put in place by Creator. Her existence became necessary in order to give form to Creator's thoughts and therefore ours as well.

Lawren Leo

#3. Most men get their deepest conviction of self-worth from a woman, wife, mother, or if they are highly conscious, from their own anima. The woman sees and shows the man his value by lighting the lamp.

Robert A. Johnson

#4. If you think the anima as being "nothing but" what you know about her, you have not the receptiveness of a listening attitude, and so she becomes "nothing but" a load of brutal emotions; you have never given her a chance of expressing herself, and therefore she has become inhuman and brutal.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#5. Perhaps Eurydice wants to remain marginal, a shade insubstantial ... the mute waste in a limbo without light and without depth are a style of anima fascinations in which the absence of significance is the significance.

James Hillman

#6. When a man says to a woman, "You are my anima," she should quickly scream and run out of the room. The word anima has neither the greatness of the Woman with Golden Hair nor the greatness of an ordinary woman, who wants to be loved as a woman.

Robert Bly

#7. If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye, and what then? - S. T. Coleridge, Anima Poetae

Clive Barker

#8. The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.

Carl Jung

#9. Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

#10. The word animal is a derivative of the Greek word anima, which also means soul.

Gunther Hauk

#11. The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima' - the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd.
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima" - the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. When not used as an instrument, the intellect becomes autonomous and dynamic and one can be sure that a man with such attitude is driven by his anima, otherwise he would discuss in a quiet, detached way.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#13. To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
[Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. From the very moment of Kanga's appearance the pastoral playground is overshadowed by doubt and guilt, for the all-too-loving anima-Woman has pitched her temple here!

Frederick C. Crews

#15. Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Jim Morrison

#16. The god laughed darkly. "Let's just say I made sure he was playing on our team."
Curious, I started to ask how, but Apollo grinned at me. "Use your imagination," he said, and my imagination went to some really weird places.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#17. Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

C. G. Jung

#18. When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim.

C. G. Jung

#19. I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#20. The ordinary build houses when they have bricks; the extraordinary build mansions when they have pebbles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

Rue McClanahan

#22. First, there must be talent ... Then there must be discipline ... Then there must be ... and absolute conscience ... to prevent faking.

Ernest Hemingway,

#23. I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

John Taylor Gatto

#24. It's what you do that makes your soul.

Barbara Kingsolver

#25. A little light in the dark night
A faint voice is calling you
This way! This way!
This flickering, wavering little voice
Like dew, like a bonfire
The voice of insects
the sound of the water
You can never lose them
once you've heard them ...

Natsumi Mukai