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Quotes About Ghost

for that Ghast ship
~ Anthony James
Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures here below, Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.             Amen.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.
~ Francesca Lia Block
My breath clouded the air like a little ghost escaping from my body.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you. A ghost wandering around in search of your body, eager to possess you. We are addicted to the self we construct.
~ Frank Herbert
Which of us would not have been happy under Alexander's radiant gaze? But Diogenes frantically begged him to move out of the way of the sun. That tub was full of ghosts.
~ Franz Kafka
Por lo tanto, tal vez sea mejor soportarlo todo con pasividad, comportarse como una simple masa, y si uno se siente arrastrado, no dejarse inducir al menor paso innecesario, contemplar a los demás con la mirada de un animal, no sentir ningún remordimiento en fin, ahogar con una sola mano el fantasma de vida que aún subsista, es decir, aumentar en lo posible la postrera calma sepulcral, y no dejar subsistir nada más.
~ Franz Kafka
Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.
~ Tim O'Brien
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
~ Henry Rollins
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
~ Maggie Smith
Sometimes you look around at your life and you see a ghost of a different one. It watches from the wings like an understudy that knows it won't go on. The play unfolds, and eventually, when you glance backstage, that life you knew is gone, and no one watching ever knew it was there at all.
~ Robyn Schneider
I kept looking at the door. It seemed about to open, all the time. So much of the ghost story is the anticipation.
~ Roger Clarke
just as vivid—I slowly let go of my prejudices and came to accept, like Hamlet after seeing his father's ghost, that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. Since then, I have helped or watched literally thousands of people go through similar experiences—life-changing journeys into psychic memory that help illuminate—and heal—the traumas of the present.
~ Roger Woolger
I am awake but asleep, a ghost floating in a space that has no beginning or end, just an endless hall of grief.
~ Ronald L. Smith
Every love story needs a closure. If it is denied that, it drifts aimlessly between the earth and the sky like a ghost..
~ Rooma Mehra
Caesar's ghost on the eve of the Battle of Philippi. We ignore them at our peril; we listen to them at the risk of our sanity. A French poet said, by the end of life, we all contain libraries and graveyards. It seemed to have happened to me already, my familiarity with both. I knew I had to get help with this now,
~ Rosalind Brackenbury
She turned to the window although it was dark now and the glass held only a tired ghost.
~ Louise Erdrich
Who but an NDN would know that some days truth is a ghost who shouts in the voice of no one in particular and other days it is a secret nostalgia poured into the coffee cups of the living?
~ Louise Erdrich
Who but an NDN would know that some days truth is a ghost who shouts in the voice of no one in particular and other days it is a secret nostalgia poured into the coffee cups of the living? —Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
~ Louise Erdrich
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
~ Maggie Smith
But it was the love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without my appetite to eat it. No hunger. No fullness.
~ Amy Tan
Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself in the river, and I don't want his ghost visiting to keep telling me he's sorry.
~ Amy Tan
What ghost will visit our Hamlet tonight on the castle walls of his dreams? Surely not Robert Brownburn; even if there is a heaven where all animals and men are brought together in a mad reunion, atheists such as Robert will not return to us in phantom form—not because they reside in some celestial detention but out of pure stubbornness.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
AIDANCE  (A'IDANCE)   n.s.[from aid.]Help; support: a word little used. Oft have I seen a timely parted ghost,Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless,Being all descended to the lab'ring heart,Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy.Sh.Hen. VI.
~ Samuel Johnson