Quotes About Ghosts

Danny feels his somberness confirmed __ how else can one feel when surrounded by such a majority of ghosts? You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

Fat flakes of snow fell like silent, feathery ghosts in the windless sub-arctic night beyond the window.

This house…she hated this house and all of the ghosts and pain that were trapped within its walls. Trapped, just as she was.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

I don't suppose this gate's been opened for years." "Why hasn't somebody bought it?" Barbara wanted to know. "Ghosts," replied Mr. Pinthorpe tersely. "At least, that's what I heard. Shouldn't have told you that, I don't suppose." "I'm not frightened of ghosts," said Barbara stoutly.

It's a supernatural library filled with unfinished ghost stories, written by ghosts, where time has no meaning , and the Boogeyman wants to blow it all up. What exactly is it you think I can handle about any of that ?

I carry the memories of the ghosts of a place called Vietnam - the people of Vietnam, my fellow soldiers.

There's always been a need for horror fiction, though--ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature--and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That's one big horror story. And it's the most popular book on the planet.

I think we make a big mistake about ghosts,' he said suddenly. 'We think they are from the past. We think they are all dead. But they are alive. And some of them are not even born yet. They are travellers.' 'Travellers?

It's one thing to run from ghosts, it's quite another to let them catch you.

So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away; I will go down to the chapel and pray.

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

As far as I can tell, all cats [can see ghosts.] But they aren't terribly impressed with the fact that we're dead and still present. One rarely gets a reaction from them.

Of course cats [can see ghosts]. As far as I can tell, all cats. But they aren't terribly impressed with the fact that we're dead and still present.

Aaaaaaaagh!" I screamed, emerging from the wards and onto Murphy's front lawn, chock-full of new insight as to why ghosts are always moaning or wailing when they come popping out of somebody's wall or floor. Not much mystery there—it freaking hurts.

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

I think...she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts.

If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

But what does one say to a ghost, except to ask why he was here? I was afraid of the answer, so instead I said, 'What took you so long?

To understand our fate and theirs, we must do more than tell ghost stories. We must also tell the war stories that made ghosts and made us ghosts, the war stories that brought us here.

Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" I asked. Over the line, in the silence, the static hissed. "You aren't afraid of the things you believe in," he said. This, too, I wrote in his memoir, even though I had not understood what he meant.

No one is more afraid of ghosts than those that don't believe in them.

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.