Phantoms Quotes

190 Phantoms quotes by 154 unique authors

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create. — Truman Capote
Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of… — Gaston Leroux
For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse. — Terri Farley
Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart… — Loren Eiseley
Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So… — Jeff Lindsay
She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a… — Sarah Dunn
Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your… — Alan Moore
Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night. — Khalil Gibran
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a… — Guy de Maupassant
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms… — Jostein Gaarder
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we… — Iris Murdoch
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers,… — Gaston Leroux
Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade — Gerard Way
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple… — William George Jordan
. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and… — Dan Millman
Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes of books that… — Garth Stein
Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the… — Robert Graves
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere… — Yukiru Sugisaki
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares. — Ilsa J. Bick
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only… — Adolfo Bioy Casares
We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely… — Daphne du Maurier
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into… — Charles Dickens
Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at Phantom. "Sit," he… — Alexandra Adornetto

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