Dedicated Quote by Rick Yancey

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

— David Mitchell

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then…

— Virginia Woolf

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

— Luigi Pirandello

“They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my imagination; for…

— Marcel Proust

In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.

— Frederick Lenz

The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and…

— Samuel Johnson

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

— Jane Hamilton

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we…

— Victor Hugo

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

— Sophocles

“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little we are…

— Virginia Woolf

The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our…

— Richard Russo

Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach