Phantoms Quotes - Page 10

• You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Reality, Imagination

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• There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Men, Bullets

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
  
  Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
  Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
  Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
  
  So is all conditioned existence to be seen.

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Clouds

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• Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain; - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull.

  Heinrich Heine

  Night, Skulls, Brain

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of travel”, p.173

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• Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. This arcane act of nature, though perceived by us as ordinary, is a manifestation of Maya's phantom play, the great immensity expressed in every way. My garden is the universe. I am the universe. I am my garden. All things are the same.

  Duane Michals

  Garden, Purple, August

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• The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.

  William C. Bryant

  Art, Gay, Laughing

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep Coming, her singular take on the endless parade of black men who have fought, sung, cajoled, tricked, worked, wrote, or roped their way into the American experience . She has assembled a most rewarding cast, a phenomenal coterie of role models and phantoms, and she has done a splendid job of telling their stories.

  Herb Boyd

  Strong, Jobs, Men

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

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Ideas, Tangible

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.69, VM eBooks

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• I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.

  Lev Grossman

  Dragons, Cartoon, Wizards

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Kids, Home

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Heart, Apology

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Reality, Self

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• Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Dark

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• There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Regret, Eye, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Regret”

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

  Herman Melville

  Giving, Promise, Way

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.148

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• Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

  George Washington

  Happiness, Government, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.20

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• Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Athlete, Office, Battle

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

  Stephen Crane

  Truth, Wind, Long

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Dover Publications

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• I read the Phantom comics when I was in Australia shooting 'Dead Calm'' and when one of the crew told me that there were plans for a movie, I went for it. That was in 1987 and I told (producer) Graham Burke I was going to be the Phantom. We had a laugh about that recently because you usually get what you deserve, not what you desire, and that is especially true in Hollywood!

  Billy Zane

  Australia, Laughing, Desire

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• Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Soul, Atheism

  "Ingersoll the Magnificent". Book by Joseph L. Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1957.

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• Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

  Lucretius

  Men, Long, Atheism

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• Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign lands have never been presented. They bow their knees and say they are 'miserable sinners,' and their hearts rankle with abominable pride. Poor infatuated fools! Their servility is real and their insolence is real but their king is a phantom and their palace is a dream.

  William Winwood Reade

  Christian, Dream, Spiritual

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.533

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• Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

  George Sterling

  Atheism, World, Littles

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• God is not an elusive dream or a phantom to chase, but a divine person to know. He does not avoid us, but seeks us. When we seek Him, the contact is instantaneous.

  Neva Coyle

  Dream, Doe, Divine

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• They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Imagination, Prejudice

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