Phantom Love Quotes

#1. The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#2. Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Let her destroy me if she will. Better to be destroyed by her love than to never have known it. Erik

Book 2~Chanson de l'Ange: The Angel's Song

Paisley Swan Stewart

#4. [Tessa] knew about phantom limbs [....] Her cheek, where the Englishman's fingers had been, did not exactly ache ... but very strangely, most curiously ... it felt.

Eva Ibbotson

#5. You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

Simon Pegg

#6. Damon, leather and silk and fine chiseled features. Mercurial and devastating.

L.J.Smith

#7. King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

Mason Cooley

#8. Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you! ... Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again! ... Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!

Gaston Leroux

#9. Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#10. The passion I feel for you is more than you're prepared for. - Eric

Kailin Gow

#11. To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Virginia Woolf

#12. To love those who despise us, and to give one's hand to the phantom who tries to frighten us?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

Sarah Dunn

#14. At night I lay awake, her likeness casting dark shadows across my soul and senses, and my stomach throbbing away. I imagined her arms around me, lulling me into a phantom bliss, so frustrating, so unreal.

Stephen Mosley

#15. You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

Gaston Leroux

#16. It would hurt someone normal," I whispered. "I'm not normal. It isn't like a phantom limb, something you had, used, needed and missed when it was gone. I never had that. I never had love. Devotion. Loyalty. You can't miss something you've never had.

Kristen Ashley

#17. Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Lead me, save me from my solitude. Say you want me with you, here beside you. Anywhere you go, let me go, too. Christine; that's all I ask of you.

Charles Hart

#18. Monsieur, you must be mad!
Box Five can never be had
For money, love or the world ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#19. None of us can choose where we shall love...

Susan Kay

#20. When a man", continued Raoul,"adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections.."
"The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?

Gaston Leroux

#21. He's mine. I love him, and you can't have him, Christine. You can't have them both.

Sadie Montgomery

#22. What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?

Ivan Turgenev

#23. I believe, my lady, that life is the phantom, and love still more fleeting and elusive - here one minute like a sweet scent you can't quite recognize and gone the next. Best enjoy both while you can.

Dawn Hammill

#24. If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

Gaston Leroux

#25. Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

Karen Horney

#26. Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.

Charisma Carpenter

#27. I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.

Haruki Murakami

#28. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

Peter Ackroyd

#29. Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.

Jessie Burton

#30. I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom of a desire he cherished more than he cherished me, the woman he claimed to love.

Alexander Chee

#31. Every hunchback has his gypsy, each phantom his diva, and flames of passion consume witches and martyrs alike. For any lonely monster, tradition demands that one sacrificial soul seek immolation.
Ashe to ashes.
It remains the ultimate, transformative act of love.

Robert Dunbar

#32. And if i
if i ever let love go
because the hatred and the whisperings
become a phantom dictate i o-
bey in lieu of impulse and realities
(the blossoming flamingos of my
wild mimosa trees)
then let love freeze me
out.
(from i must become a menace to my enemies)

June Jordan

#33. He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!

E.A. Bucchianeri