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Quotes About Ghost

If a ghost were to consider climbing in the window, or seeping through the plaster, he might think twice about facing Maria.
~ Alice Hoffman
wouldn't it be more likely that time was the element a spirit would be attached to? That would mean a ghost is an entity that can't let go of what was and isn't anymore.
~ Alice Hoffman
Evan's head was filled with the sound of water. He thought of the ghost in the grass, her blue dress and bare feet. He thought of the way the doves had flown up into the sky all in a rush, startled by gunfire, and then all he could think was that despite everything that happened, he was alive.
~ Alice Hoffman
He walked in the room like a ghost and like a ghost slipped in between the sheets, barely creasing them. He was not unkind in the ways that the television and newspapers were full of. His cruelty was in his absence. Even when he came and sat at her dinner table and ate her food, he was not there.
~ Alice Sebold
O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!
~ Ambrose Bierce
Did you ever feel a creeping, That awoke you from your sleeping, That made your pulses flutter and bristled all your hair; While a horrid stealthy crawling Prevented you from calling, And something seemed to tell you that a ghost was coming there?
~ Amelia B. Edwards
He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he'd have to turn the barrel against his own temple.
~ Joe Hill
He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places.
~ Joe Hill
These, and many of the other best-known legends of the Rosebud, are false…the ghost stories of people who have seen too many horror movies and who think they know exactly how a ghost story should be.
~ Joe Hill
Negative." One of the engineers, Greeley, shook his head. "Communications are five-by. Ditto the scanners. It all checks out." He flicked his eyes upward. "It's just a ghost ship, that's all.
~ Joe Schreiber
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
~ Anthony Burgess
I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
~ Jack Kerouac
She is a ghost climbing out of the sea, returning to the spot where no one loved her quite enough to keep her safe.
~ E. Lockhart
The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.
~ E.M. Forster
With his head on the fender and all his limbs relaxed, he felt almost as safe as he felt once when his mother killed a ghost in the passage by carrying him through it in her arms. There was no ghost now; he was frightened at reality; he was frightened at the splendors and horrors of the world.
~ E.M. Forster
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Oh dark woman With a shawl and ribs I could have served him better With my shanties. But men do love the shimmer And so his ghost Is hacked in half between us The dark me and the dark you.
~ Edna O'Brien
A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
~ Anonymous
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all.
~ Anonymous
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
~ Anonymous
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
~ Anthony Burgess