The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the…

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

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

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

— Longchenpa