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Quotes About Ghost

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I buy Coppertone Water Babies in abundance at the airport, SPF 60 or 70. I like being pale; I like looking like a creature from the dead world. I like looking like a ghost.
~ Jennifer Stone
In fact, I think I have had a ghost in my house. Although not active lately, unexplainable things would happen and the kitties were particularly sensitive - especially, Marlon Brando... the cat not the man.
~ Tippi Hedren
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!
~ Peter Shaffer
She can still feel the memory of what it was to be fully human, and mistake that ghost for honest sensation.
~ Peter Watts
During the night, Alexander gets up to urinate, and wanders through the densely packed house. He sees his father's ghost once again and says, "Papa, why can't you go to God and tell him to kill the bishop? That is his department.
~ Philip Greven
The ghost story is a popular genre of mine and is particularly adaptable to the visual media.
~ Ruskin Bond
a major named Ed Dames, had taken to psychic spying on the Loch Ness monster during the fallow months, when there wasn't much official military psychic work. He determined that it was a dinosaur's ghost. This finding irritated some of the others, who considered it unscientific and frankly implausible.
~ Jon Ronson
That ghost of a smile fell away and receded and finally faded.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Come. Your future awaits." "What kind of future hides out in the Ghost of Internets Past?" R.C.
~ Aaron Rosenberg
By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not. (Joshua Malina, Sports Night)
~ Aaron Sorkin
The truth is, though, that you don't need to die to know what it's like to be a ghost.
~ Adam Johnson
Soon the Boov was in the ghost suit and Pig was in the car, which would be a good lyric for a bluegrass song, now that I think of it.
~ Adam Rex
Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?
~ Adele Griffin
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
~ Francis Bacon
Love is the only good way many of us know how to feel alive. And the ghost I so often was wanted badly to feel real. And the characters in this section can at least tell you I existed. They might not have thought of me much, but they can tell you I was real. Sometimes too real.
~ Porochista Khakpour
This feeling, that she was the invisible witness to another person's solitude - a kind of ghost - nearly drove her mad for awhile.
~ Rachel Cusk
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
~ Susan Hill
ghost of a distant author, with the disturbing presence of the foreign text, and with the phantom of the reader.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
a ghost, though invisible, still is like a place
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.
~ Ray Bradbury
Actually, we shot it over two days and the ghost of Danny DeVito was devastatingly present the whole time.
~ Wallace Shawn
If breakups are like deaths, then ex sightings are like seeing a ghost: you feel goose bumps, near loss of bladder control, and the sensation of your heart bursting in your throat. The distinction is that the ex is alive.
~ Daria Snadowsky
Proust's Law (are you listening?) is twofold:(a) What least thing our self-love longs for mostOthers instinctively withhold;(b) Only when time has slain desireIs his wish granted to a smiling ghostNeither harmed nor warmed, now, by the fire.
~ James Merrill