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.
Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.
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.
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
Donald Trump's blaming the media, he's blaming the GOP, he's saying that America can't run a fair election. He is swinging at every phantom of his own imagination because he knows he's losing.
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.
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream
Truth is a necessary phantom.
The night you gave me my birthday party. . . you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.
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.
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.
Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. " - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death
Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.
For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse.
Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
