Quotes about Apparition
It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
- Job 4:16
When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and gripped with fear.
- Luke 1:12
Just then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
- Luke 2:9
It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the dawn of love to rise.
- Victor Hugo
There is another telling aspect to a show of naval might. This is its temerity. A fleet carries with it the audacity of its enterprise. The stay-at-home foe is stricken by its sudden apparition. The enemy beholding a navy advancing upon him out of the aether is struck with dread, as Priam himself when Achilles' black ships beached upon the plain of Troy.
- Steven Pressfield
Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition. A cloud flower.
- Margaret Atwood
She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight;A lovely apparition, sentTo be a moment's ornament.
- William Wordsworth