Phantoms Quotes - Page 8

• Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Peace, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

  Susan Sontag

  Museums, Grandparent, Essentials

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.62, Macmillan

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• I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

  Gerard Butler

  Believe, Mean, Independent

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• What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Clouds, Broken

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• [Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of observation accumulated, phantoms of the imagination were exorcised, idols of the cave were shattered, trustworthy materials were obtained for logical treatment, and hypotheses by long and careful trial were converted into theories.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Science, Idols, Long

  Thomas George Bonney (1913). “The Present Relations of Science and Religion”

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• On Phantom... I listened to the music while I was reading the script. And it had just blown me away. I really... I was so excited about it. It's been a long time since I really got so excited about something.

  Gerard Butler

  Reading, Long, Scripts

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• Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Beauty, Girl, Thinking

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• It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Couple, Passion, Heart

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• A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Philosophical, Able, Universe

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• It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.

  J.R. Ward

  Pain, Nuts, Guy

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.149, Penguin

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• ...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.

  Kristin Hannah

  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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• In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

  Samuel Beckett

  Names, Eggs, Caves

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  David Mitchell

  People, Mind, Vacancy

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.19, Random House

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• The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

  Jandy Nelson

  Fall, Thinking, Air

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• Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant! -Erik in The Phantom of the Opera

  Gaston Leroux

  Eye, Voice, Forever

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• The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.

  Richard Russo

  Real, Heart, Light

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• If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so." . . . "Come now," he said at last, "you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?

  Frances Hardinge

  Thinking, People, Ignorant

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• All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.

  Washington Irving

  Lonely, Night, Men

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• You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.

  Neil Peart

  Fear, Kindness, Voice

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• The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Together, Would Be

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.49, Vintage

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• Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?

  Haven Kimmel

  Ruins, Infinity, Possibility

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.35, Anchor

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• ...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.

  Diane Ackerman

  Children, Pain, Memories

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• Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

  Gaston Leroux

  Soul, Tonight, Gaston

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• We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

  Alan Greenspan

  Real, Needs, Locks

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• Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Dream, Distance, Stupid

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.121, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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