Quotes About Ghosts

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when I finally decide to turn off the library light, I carry into my sleep the voices and the movements of the book I've just closed.

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep.

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.

'Ghost Hunters,' they like to go out and disprove everything and just wave a bunch of equipment around for a couple hours.

In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.

There comes a point when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.

There comes a time when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.

There were ghosts in the wind, whispers from the snow or the invisible meltwater flowing beneath.

I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I'm yours ghosts and all.

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

I had slept nothing all night, making ghosts for myself, filling my mind with them and giving myself pale frights. All the ghosts had a different punishment for me, some of them shocking indeed.

Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world. One's very instincts rebel at the admission of such maddening possibility. For, once the initial step is made into the supernatural, there is no turning back, no knowing where the strange road leads except that it is quite unknown and quite terrible. (Slaughter House)

Look, if we go in the front, they'll both want to fuss over you, and we won't have any privacy, and I can't mention ghosts and weird things in front of them." "You know, cher , I've had a lotta girls talk me into their bedrooms, but this is the first time I've heard that excuse.

The ghosts actually let you see them in person?" "No," Parker said. "Only in spirit.

Look, Percy continued, I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties- He mentioned it! one of the ghosts whimpered.

After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will.

Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn't exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing.

Nico couldn't stop the memories. They cluttered his dreams like the ghosts of Asphodel – an aimless, sorrowful mob pleading for attention. Save me, they seemed to whisper. Remember me. Help me. Comfort me.

In order not to bother or be bothered by ghosts, you just act like you're one of them. That's what I do.

Never mind, he said. We all have our ghosts. And not many secrets between a telepath and a clairvoyant. You really must believe we can do some good, she said slowly. To…willingly expose yourself to so many of us. Deadpan, he said, I didn't think it through.