Best Spectre Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.”

Thinking World Way Half Shadow My Way Unhappiness No Fear Orthodoxy Spectre

Author:Thomas Huxley

“I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.”

War Memories Generations Childhood Currents Afghanistan Famine Spectre Fond Memories Landmines Current Generation

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.”

Needs Scary Terrified Midnight Pillow Spectre

Book:Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.”

Looks Book Hands Eye Earth Night Left Sides Millions Sun Thirds This Day Day And Night Filters Through The Eyes Spectre Through My Eyes Earth And Sun

Author:Walt Whitman

“works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.”

Feels Years Humans Art Three Human Beings Space Doors Wall Ten Smell Ghost Score Significance Works Of Art Quarters Disgusting Transparency Meaninglessness Spectre

Author:Rebecca West

“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.”

Ifs Men Mind Ends Whole Together Night Evil Causes Walks Race Darkness Path Shapes Devil Lonely Mere Terror Ghost Despite Mortals Satan Witch Daylight Phantoms Perplexity Goblin Spectre

Author:Washington Irving

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”

Long Light Care Past Waiting Doubt Sorrow Breaths Shame Affection Hungry Spells Persist Forgetfulness Gloomy Subjection Tess Spectre Moodiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.”

Men Ends Dream Reality Joy Evil Existence Darkness Growing Minutes Car Praying Despair Goodness Sat Anguish Spectre

Book:A Great Deliverance

Source: A Great Deliverance

“When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner ? This alone - I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace-I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying - when friends can do you no good - when sins rise up like spectres around your bed - what can give you peace ? This - "I have a high priest in heaven"”

Giving Feels Heaven Can Do Hours Sin Support Dying Ready Bed Crowds Lust Sinner Priests Companion Affliction Sinking Spectre

Author:Robert Murray M'Cheyne

“Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.”

“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world”

Source: Where is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile

“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. ... Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. ... fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.”

“Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.”

Dies Universe Individual Mines Elements Ghost Individual Life Spectre

Book:Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

“Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.”

Men Hard Today House Secret Sea Rocks Built Prison Nostalgia Islands Jail Solitary Sheer Severe Live Free Spectre

Book:Woman Like Me

Source: Woman Like Me

“I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.”

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.”

Men Walks He Man Illusion Terror Chairs Spectre

Book:Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

“Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.”

World Humans Real Government Political Issues Rights Building Abuse Human Rights Blow Terrorism Around The World Maps Shields Blast Exaggerated Scrutiny Impunity Spectre

Author:Naomi Klein

“Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems”

Night This Day Day And Night Spectre Through My Eyes

Author:Walt Whitman

“The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.”

Way States Technology Information Offers Weapons Mass Destruction Productions Developing New Ways Rapids Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Spectre Dissemination

Author:George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

“The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.”

Stars Dark Darkness Sun Heard Sea Shots Bark Stride Dip Rims Spectre

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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