This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned…

“Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

— Herman Melville

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

— Maxwell Bodenheim

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the…

— Francois Fenelon

If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people…

— Frances Hardinge

The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

— Gaston Leroux

For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse.

— Terri Farley

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

— Jane Hamilton

Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade

— Gerard Way

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

— Alan Moore

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Truth is a necessary phantom.

— Mason Cooley