No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
For Lily, there was only her phantom lover, bold enough, arrogant enough, crazy enough to dare follow her here when he was… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt —… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“They had imagined too often and too much and so they had exhausted all their possibilities. When they embraced each other’s phantoms,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When I wrote the story ["The Cartographers"], I'd just gone through a breakup with a woman I'd loved dearly. Without this other… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers… — Reiko Chiba Copy Share Image
There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
![“When I wrote the story ["The Cartographers"], I'd just gone through a breakup with a woman I'd loved dearly. Without this other person in my life, the memories we'd shared often felt like phantoms. Who was this person I once loved? Did she still really exist? The answer, on a metaphysical level…” quote by Alexander Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bb3/alexander-weinstein-17341_answers_when-i-wrote-the-story-the-cartographers_2172738.jpg)
![“It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.” quote by Sergio Leone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/251/sergio-leone-7185_cinema_it-film-making-really-just-has-to-do-wit_461520.jpg)
