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  • Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.

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

  • Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

    "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.
  • Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And I agree with him in certain ways, you know. They can be fun. I don't mind going to see them. I went and saw Phantom of the Opera. I thought hey, that's cool. Look at the mask and all that.

    Fun   Real   Years  
    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • 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.

    Fate   Evil   Enemy  
  • According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.

    Letting Go   Dog   Boys  
  • She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

  • 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.

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

    Names   Eggs   Caves  
    Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

    Art   Truth   Science  
    "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.
  • 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 Vladimirovich Nabokov (1966). “The Eye: A Novel”
  • 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.

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

  • Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see, and thus insists on the existence of a phantom presence within reality, a world we cannot perceive.

    Peter C. Bunnell (2006). “Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography”, Aperture
  • When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.

    Stars   Memories   Past  
    Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Maya”, p.158, Hachette UK
  • I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

    Land   Phantoms   Ghost  
  • The general opinion of “Revenge of the Sith” seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones.” True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.

    Revenge   Two   Dying  
    "Space Case". www.newyorker.com. May 23, 2005.
  • It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

    Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.142, Oxford University Press
  • Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.

    Heart   Eye   Light  
  • Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.

    Rights   Sea   Land  
    Henry Clay (1857). “The speeches of Henry Clay”, p.20
  • People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

    Mean   Reality   Wings  
    Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.171, Shambhala Publications
  • Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.

    Jobs   Long   Feelings  
    Source: collider.com
  • Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

    Love Is   Needs   Culture  
    Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.287, Routledge
  • REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.177, 谷月社
  • 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.

  • ...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.

    Hurt   Pain   Cutting  
  • The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

    Running   Men   Wish  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.19, 谷月社
  • I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

    Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. MArch 21, 2003.
  • 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.

    Art   Gay   Laughing  
    William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”
  • What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

    Names   Gold   Caves  
    Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”
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