Cold Quote by Wallace Stevens

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— David Mitchell

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

— Virginia Woolf

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

I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my…

— John Irving

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

— Herman Melville

They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not…

— Jean Genet

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

“They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—”

— N.K. Jemisin

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

— Robert Pollok

It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud…

— Matthew Arnold

“For leveling really to come about a phantom must first be provided, its spirit, a monstrous abstraction, an all-encompassing something that is nothing, a…

— Kierkegaard, Soren