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Quotes About Ghost

I leaned toward him and whispered, "I'm drowning. Save me." But when I tried to grasp his shoulder my hand passed through him. "I'm over here," he said. I said, "No wonder I can't touch you. You're dead too." Or perhaps I didn't say it.
~ Sarah Micklem
Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' " is one of the scariest stories I have ever read,
~ Sarah Monette
I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.
~ Dan Chaon
It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.
~ Sylvester Stallone
For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.
~ W. H. Auden
Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
~ Mark Twain
Well, I don't quite know about that, sir. I've often thought I would like to see a ghost if I—" "Would you?" exclaimed the young lady. "We've got one! Would you try that one? Will you?
~ Mark Twain
There was rain like a ghost you could walk through. Almost dry when it hit the ground.
~ Markus Zusak
I knew what it was like to be haunted by the ghost of a self one wished to be, but only half-sensed.
~ Audre Lorde
What about traditional Chinese and Sudanese ghost or spirit marriages, in which one of the partners is actually dead? In these societies a youth might be given in marriage to the dead son or daughter of another family, in order to forge closer ties between the two sets of relatives.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell Book without Boo!
~ Stephen Colbert
Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.
~ Stephen Colbert
What we've got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
~ Stephen King
Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.
~ Stephen King
The apartment was haunted by the ghost of her long departed cabbage.
~ Stephen King
Every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Stephen King
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
~ Octavio Paz
I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.
~ Leanna Renee Hieber
My voice, when it emerged, cracked a little. "I'm not in love with a ghost.
~ Jojo Moyes
He's a ghost, not a carnival magician. -Benny Imura
~ Jonathan Maberry
Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost," George said. "Now that's what I call a busy evening." Lockwood nodded. "To think some people just watch television.
~ Jonathan Stroud
I opened my mouth to speak – but before I could do so, the ghost gave its response. It was brief, pungent, and to the point. I passed it on. Lockwood started. 'Charming! Hold on – was that from you or the ghost?' 'The ghost, of course.' George whistled. 'I'm not sure I should write that down.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Dark Specter** - A frightening variety of Type Two ghost that manifests as a moving patch of darkness. Sometimes the apparition at the center of the darkness is dimly visible; at other times the black cloud is fluid and formless, perhaps shrinking to the size of a pulsing heart, or expanding at speed to engulf a room.
~ Jonathan Stroud