Apparition Quotes

The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'. — Mooji

She (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition. — Steven Pressfield

Boq sat down, and shook his head, as if bewildered by the apparition of Elphaba. — Gregory Maguire

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. — Yukio Mishima

she doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in anticipation of its apparition. — Steven Pressfield

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is 'apparition'. — Margot McCuaig

Adam thinks he saw an apparition at his place."
Ronan eyed Noah. "I'm seeing an apparition right now."
Noah made a rude gesture [ ... ]. — Maggie Stiefvater

Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion. — Woody Allen

My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious. — Jessica Warman

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. — Longchenpa

I often see through things right to the apparition itself. — Grace Paley

For he was still unable to recall the apparition wholly to his own mind, much less to form a narrative for the pleasures of a third. — Eleanor Catton

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition. — Jack Kroll

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

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

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough. — Ezra Pound

Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning
already gone
thus should one regard one's self. — Ikkyu

Peter's privatemost circuitry a sudden and confusing crossfiring at how arousing and simultaneously dick-shriveling this apparition was. — Brian McGreevy