Fame is an apparition. Fame is a side effect of success.

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,…

— Allen Ginsberg

“And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. She walked with measured steps, draped…

— Joseph Conrad

Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with…

— Yukio Mishima

“He drops his head, tries to allay the thumping of his heart in the thin air. When he looks up again, the young girl…

— Blake Crouch

“My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.”

— Jessica Warman

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition,…

— Lew Wallace

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is…

— Hollis Frampton

The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in…

— Thomas Paine

Two woman as an apparition came. one in persian robes instructed well,

— Anonymous

Sometimes a disappearance can be more haunting than an apparition.

— Mark Fisher

“.. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. 'She walked with measured steps,…

— Joseph Conrad

“Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.”

— Margot McCuaig