Spectre Quotes

22 quotes by 22 authors

When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you,… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre… — Ana Mendieta
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then… — William O. Douglas
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die,… — H. Rider Haggard
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over… — Curzio Malaparte
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports… — Joseph Addison
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before… — Arthur Helps
Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has… — Naomi Klein
The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons… — George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. — Fernando Pessoa
One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"â€” His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said,… — Bill Vaughan
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal… — Thomas Huxley
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and… — Walt Whitman
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift… — Rebecca West
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
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her… — Thomas Hardy
He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the… — Elizabeth George
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. — Atul Gawande

Who Wrote These Spectre Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 22 Spectre Quotes as follows: