Able Quote by Virginia Woolf

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

— David Mitchell

Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm…

— Ludwig von Mises

“You see spirits who talk to you in broad daylight, at night you see perfectly shaped, perfectly distinct phantoms, you think you remember having…

— Gérard de Nerval

“My mind gets caught up in the world,becoming so disconnected and lost,you find guidance from ghosts that have no direction and only aim to…

— Tyler Hawkins

These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and…

— Charles Lindbergh

These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls…

— Charles Lindbergh

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

— Plato

“You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to…

— Cornell Woolrich

There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their…

— Ernest Hello

“Our thoughts are only illusions when they do not reflect who we really are, our emotions only wasteful when we are not seeing them…

— Jeff Brown

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…

— Rick Yancey