Phantom Agony

Famous quotes containing the words phantom and/or agony:

    If only the phantom would stop reappearing!
    Business, if you wanted to know, was punk at the opera.
    The heroine no longer appeared in Faust.
    The crowds strolled sadly away.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    Zorba: Why do the young die? Why does anybody die?
    Basil: I don’t know.
    Zorba: What’s the use of all your damn books? If they don’t tell you that, what the hell do they tell you?
    Basil: They tell me about the agony of men who can’t answer questions like yours.
    I spit on their agony.
    Michael Cacoyannis (b. 1922)