Quotes About Ghosts

There was a huge moon over the western mountains, and it made the city seem even more mysterious and old, and the great black castle on the ridge stood out in front of the moon. And if there are ghosts anyplace in the world, they must be here, and if there is a ghost of Queen Tamara, she must have been walking the ridge in the moonlight that night.

The ship started a school of fliers that skipped along the wave tops like shining silver coins. These are the ghosts of treasures ost at sea, the cook went on, the murder things, emeralds and diamonds and gold; the sins of men, committed for them, stick to them and make them haunt the ocean. Ah! It's a poor thing if a sailor will not make a grand tale about it. Henry pointed to a great tortoise asleep on the surface. And what is the tale of the turtles? He asked. Nothing; only food...

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, no bloody slab of cow haunch or hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of mute vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'

A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

Naif hugged herself as she watched the damp stealing in. The island's ready mists were like the ghosts of the young dead roaming the slopes. Below ground was a maze of tunnels and caves. Some led to the mountain top, while a different set ran along the beach. In one of the latter Ruzalia moored her sleek stingray-styled boat. At this time of day she would be down there, preparing it for her next raid.

The day your heart fills only with fear and insecurities, everything you see becomes the ghost that you were always scared of.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one.

Sin prevenciones me doy vuelta y siguen aquellos dos a la izquierda del roble eternos y escondidos en la lluvia diciéndose quién sabe qué silencios. No sé si alguna vez les ha pasado a ustedes pero cuando la lluvia cae sobre el Botánico aquí se quedan sólo los fantasmas. Ustedes pueden irse. Yo me quedo.

A propósito, ¿cómo andan tus fantasmas? Dales prteínas, no sea que se debiliten.

It is true that the gods are dead, because of course we killed them. But their ghosts are still with us, and the anger of those ghosts is righteous and palpable and poetic.

Pino at that moment seemed to me like a portal into a long-ago world where the ghosts of war and courage, the demons of hatred and inhumanity, and the arias of faith and love still played out within the good and decent soul who'd survived to tell the tales.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Susanna, who is superstitious, has put a piece of rowan wood in the pocket of her black dress to guard against ghosts

I like endless historical family drama serials, but in real life, ghosts are way more annoying.

Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.