Phantoms Quotes

• I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Land, Ghost, Nightmare

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• It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Harder

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.142, Oxford University Press

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• Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

  Olive Schreiner

  Dream, Men

  Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.455, The Floating Press

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• Truth is a necessary phantom.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth, Truth Is

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• The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Long, Heaven, Atheism

  "Man, Society, and Freedom" by Mikhail Bakunin (1871), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, 1971.

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• Even when the Phantom's leased, them hoes wanna get in.

  Drake

  Humble, Hoe

  Song: Successful, 2009

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• As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

  Dante Alighieri

  Fall, Shadow, Beast

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”

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• He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

  Antonio Porchia

  Doe, World, Remains

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

  Mark Twain

  Half, Wells, Ifs

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.515, Courier Corporation

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• Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.

  Ben Affleck

  Bombs, Strike Back

  "Fictional character: Holden". "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• How cold the vacancy
  When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
  First sees reality. The mortal no
  Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reality, Vacancy, Gone

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• 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 me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mirrors, Population, Increase

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1966). “The Eye: A Novel”

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• For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mirrors

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• The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

  Michelangelo

  Happiness, Success, Hope

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• I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Luigi Pirandello (2017). “Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba”, p.310, Princeton University Press

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• O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

  Louis Aragon

  Dream, Reality, Wake Up

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• Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

  Benito Mussolini

  Eugenics, Comedy, Socialism

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• Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Flower, Dark, Night

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.

  Jessie Burton

  Reality, Love Is, Caught

  Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

  Olive Schreiner

  Fathers Day, Dream, Men

  Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.455, The Floating Press

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• The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.333

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• If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

  Gaston Leroux

  Men, Hatred, Opera

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• Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

  Sophocles

  Fate, Evil, Enemy

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• Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Good Friend, Games, Laughing

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• Life is the game that must be played.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Life, Games, Arlington

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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