Famous quotes containing the words ghost and/or condition:
“Two thoughts were so mixed up I could not tell
Whether of her or God he thought the most,
But think that his minds eye,
When upward turned, on one sole image fell;
And that a slight companionable ghost ...”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The Germans are always too late. They are late, like music, which is always the last of the arts to express a world condition,when that world condition is already in its final stages. They are abstract and mystical.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)