Phantoms Quotes

190 Phantoms quotes by 154 unique authors

I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit… — Jo Nesbo
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. — Antonio Porchia
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one… — Arthur Rubinstein
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. — Carl Sandburg
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. — Olive Schreiner
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.… — Eckhart Tolle
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. — Virginia Woolf
The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a… — Zelda Fitzgerald
Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera. — Gaston Leroux
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --… — Diane Ackerman
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of… — Oscar Wilde
and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of… — June Jordan
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
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real… — Mark Twain
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is… — Philip K. Dick
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological… — Jack Kerouac
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a… — Virginia Woolf
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life… — Haven Kimmel
If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love… — Gaston Leroux
It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A… — Cormac McCarthy
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose… — Neil Peart
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in… — Washington Irving
If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing… — Frances Hardinge
The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild… — Richard Russo

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