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Quotes About Apparition

I've only yet to see the apparition of enlightenment, and it always slips past in my periphery.
~ Terri Guillemets, "Mist," 2002
The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing like a banshee, athward and past that little less-than-village like a forgotten bead from a broken string.
~ William Faulkner
novelty resembles life in the same way as the latest apparition of a harlot proves the essence of God. His existence had already been proved by the accordion, the
~ Tristan Tzara
so full of shapes is fancy
~ William Shakespeare
What are these, So withered, and so wild in their attire, That look not like th'inhabitants o'th' earth And yet are on't? - Live you, or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
~ William Shakespeare
How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught That man may question? The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd? Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!
~ William Shakespeare
I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I've seen a few.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
She was always a good deal of trouble, and I suspect she will reappear when I least want to see her, skirts too long, shy to the point of aggravation, always the injured party, full of recriminations and little hurts and stories I do not want to hear again, at once saddening me and angering me with her vulnerability and ignorance, an apparition all the more insistent for being so long banished.
~ Joan Didion
? ????? ?????? ?????????: ?????? ???? ??????? ??, ??? ?????????? ???????, ??? ????? ?????? ???????... I still recall the wondrous moment When you appeared before my eyes, Just like a fleeting apparition, Just like pure beauty's distillation...
~ Unknown
fata morgana
~ Dean Koontz
A la Santa Madre, María la Virgen Bendita: Siento que siempre estás conmigo. No hay palabras para describir la profundidad de mi agradecimiento por tu amor y tus cuidados. Mantén siempre mi corazón cerca al tuyo, madre, tú me llenas por completo, y siempre te amaré. Gracias por aparecerte ante mí en
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
warned by a ghost.
~ Jodi Picoult
the Missus stood like a ghost.
~ Diane Setterfield
Anyone would think you'd seen a ghost!
~ Diane Setterfield
Goodness is a triumph. And so it is / with love. Love is not the part / we are born with that flowers / a little and then wanes as we / grow up. We cobble love together / from this and those of our machinery / until there is suddenly an apparition / that never existed before.
~ Jack Gilbert
The flowers which played then among the grass, the water which rippled past in the sunshine, the whole landscape which served as environment to their apparition lingers around the memory of them still with its unconscious or unheeding air;...
~ Marcel Proust
I won't let you haunt me like a ghost. You'll always be standing between these hills, like the moon, like the river, like an alem on a minaret, like a shining apparition. You've filled this place with yourself, like a mirror, filled it with fragrance
~ Meša Selimovi?
A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Wilkie Twycross
~ Unknown
Nearly Headless Nick
~ Unknown
It's a feature of flashlights that they're only visible in the daytime.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Ere Babylon was dust,The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child,Met his own image walking in the garden,That apparition, sole of men, he saw.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley