Phantoms Quotes

190 Phantoms quotes by 154 unique authors

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the… — John Ruskin
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the… — Samuel Johnson
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and… — Karl Jaspers
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those… — Louis Aragon
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to… — Nick Tosches
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been… — Baron d'Holbach
Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die?… — William Peter Blatty
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have… — Unknown Author
All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over them. They have… — Vimala Thakar
I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All… — Harvey Pekar
When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we… — Pema Chodron
This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a… — Chris Hedges
Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead. — Graham Joyce
Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile. — Karin Slaughter
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept… — Norton Juster
The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting,… — T. R. Fehrenbach
The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are,… — Chogyam Trungpa
For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and… — Charlie Huston
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a… — Ambrose Bierce
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as… — William Wordsworth
When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes. — Stephen Vincent Benet
I think Mike Gibbons was probably the greatest boxer that ever put a glove on. They called him The Wizard, The Phantom of the ring… — Tommy Gibbons
All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against… — James Atlas
My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected — Duncan Sheik
The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the… — Emma Goldman

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