Apparitions Quotes

• I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dreams
  • Visions
  • Suspicious

• I bought Jayne Mansfield's mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I moved in, I could smell her, and I saw her apparition.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Death
  • England
  • Perfume

• 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
  • Knows
  • Surface

• 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
  • God
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917 . . . The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.

  

  William Thomas Walsh
  • Important
  • Home
  • Mother

• I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Spirit
  • Apparitions

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

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Canvas
  • Apparitions

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

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Faces
  • Crowd
  • Apparitions