Apparitions Quotes

• En cada bloque de mármol veo una estatua tan sencilla como si estuviera ante mí, modelada y perfecta en actitud y acción. Sólo tengo que arrancar las ásperas paredes que aprisionan la encantadora aparición para revelarla a los demás ojos como la ven los míos.

  Miguel Ángel

  Art, Attitude, Wall

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

  Ezra Pound

  Black, Crowds, Faces

  "In a Station of the Metro" l. 1 (1916)

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• Como rocío que se desvanece
  una aparición pasajera
  o el súbito relámpago
  de un relámpago -- que ya se ha ido --
  así debe uno considerarse a sí mismo.

  Ikkyu

  Self, Lightning, Dew

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• Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brillante

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.7, Library of America

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• 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

  Rest In Peace, Buddhist, Laughter

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• I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

  Pablo Picasso

  Order, Canvas

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• Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Surface, Knows

  Virginia Woolf (2016). "Al faro", p.58, Tyché

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• That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Ocean, Rushing

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• Ella era un fantasma de deleite Cuando brilló por primera vez a mi vista, Una aparición encantadora, enviada Para ser un adorno de un momento; Sus ojos como estrellas del crepúsculo hermoso, Como crepúsculos también su cabello oscuro, Pero todo lo demás en torno a ella dibujado De mayo de tiempo y el amanecer alegre.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Stars, Twilight

  1804 'She was a Phantom of delight', l.1-4 (published 1807).

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• It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.

  Emile Chartier

  Imagination, Appearance, Human Condition

  "The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.

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• I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, I Can

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [53]

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• I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

  Grace Paley

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• I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.

  William Wordsworth

  Looks, Way, Ghost

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.74

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• ¿Es una daga lo que veo ante mí, el mango hacia mi mano?

  William Shakespeare

  Carácter, Manos, Juego

  "Macbeth" (1606) acto 2, esc. 1, l. 33

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• Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings.

  Loyd Auerbach

  Confused, Intelligent, Differences

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Compassion

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

  Steven Pressfield

  Inspiration, Artist, Waiting

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• Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!

  William Shakespeare

  Gente, Miradas, Mundo

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.470

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• Puesto que todo no es más que una aparición, que no tiene nada que ver con el bien o el mal, la aceptación o el rechazo, uno bien puede estallar en carcajadas. Longchenpa Llenémonos los ojos de asombro, vivamos como si fuéramos a caer muertos en diez segundos. Veamos el mundo. Es más fantástico que cualquier sueño hecho o pagado en fábricas.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Rest In Peace, Laughter

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• Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
  And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

  John Milton

  Halloween, Men, Names

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton”, p.40

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• La juventud no es más que la cáscara pintada dentro de la cual, creciendo continuamente, vive esa cosa maravillosa que es el espíritu de un hombre, esperando su momento de aparición, antes en unos que en otros.

  Lew Wallace

  Hombres, Conchas, Crecer

  Lew Wallace (2016). "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ", p.111, Bible Study Steps.

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  ¡Doble, doble, trabajo y problemas; fuego arder, y caldero burbujear!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Memorable, Play

  "Macbeth" (1606) acto 4, esc. 1, l. 4

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• Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Sibling, Real

  Maya Angelou (2008). "Carta a mi hija", p.7, Random House

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• ...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Night, Men

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

  Mooji

  Consciousness, Operations

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