Phantoms Quotes

190 Phantoms quotes by 154 unique authors

But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything… — Jodi Picoult
As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. — Dante Alighieri
The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am… — Suzanne Collins
For Lily, there was only her phantom lover, bold enough, arrogant enough, crazy enough to dare follow her here when he was in far more… — Christine Feehan
I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’… — John Irving
Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about… — Audrey Niffenegger
The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air. — Jandy Nelson
In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? — Samuel Beckett
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom,… — Virginia Woolf
Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That’s how his mind felt—like his missing… — Rick Riordan
As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite. Here,… — Laini Taylor
Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this… — Herman Melville
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling… — Vladimir Nabokov
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our… — Rick Yancey
You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream — Charlotte Bronte
...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings;… — Kristin Hannah
It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain… — J R Ward
XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the… — Stephen Crane
The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different… — Erving Goffman
It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain… — J R Ward
Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer — that it was better to leave well… — Tom Perrotta
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot… — Carl Sandburg
Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting… — Laini Taylor
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must… — Victor Hugo
If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the… — Rick Riordan

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