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Quotes About Ghost

The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it's ready and then your ghost pours the resurrection potion out of the moka pot.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
~ Eavan Boland
When you follow your thoughts you follow a ghost.
~ Bert McCoy
We all learn to carry so much unnecessary regret. We drag it around behind ourselves and wear it sewn into the inner lining of our shadow. I think that the heart of every ghost story ever told is awash with the soft faded autumnal color of pure unredeemable regret.
~ Steve Vernon
I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.
~ Peter Ackroyd
If we see someone, an artist who just does magnificent art, and especially if they're already doing Ghost-related art, we just reach out and start collaborating. But when it comes to the record sleeves and the tour posters, I'm usually quite particular.
~ Tobias Forge
The key fob played the first bar of Für Elise as I locked the car up. I hoped that Beethoven's ghost was out there somewhere, making the night hideous for the managing director of Ford's.
~ Mike Carey
I'd taken a few swipes with Occam's razor, and that was what I'd ended up with, but that didn't make it so. I really didn't want to have to retreat and regroup with Peele and Alice breathing down my neck on either side. There were still those last few boxes, though. It was possible that Sod's Law was operating, and that the ghost's anchor was just going to turn out to be one of the documents at the very bottom of the stack.
~ Mike Carey
Furthermore, the way in which the two (Freud and Jung) corresponds invoke Fliess's ghost leaves no doubt on the subject. They threaten each other with it between the lines, they frighten each other with it, and they do so because they know (but with a secret, esoteric knowledge that never goes beyond the bounds of the private correspondence) that Fliess had gone mad owing to his correspondence with Freud.
~ Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?
~ Virginia Woolf
I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.
~ Emma Bell
I am a ghost to this man, I'm thinking. I am something unreal, something not quite tangible, yet still an obstacle of sorts and he nods, gets back on the phone, resumes speaking in a dialect totally alien to me.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
As it turned out, he was wrong about that. The last guest didn't show up until we were eating our dessert. That was when the ghost sat down in the empty chair-directly across from me.
~ Bruce Coville
Then you're saying this theater isn't haunted? I'm saying so what if it is? said Edgar. People have been saying the place is haunted for nearly fifty years now, and in all that time the ghost hasn't done one bit of harm. Why should she start now? Maybe she doesn't like the script, Ken Abbott said. Thanks a lot, Ken, said Alan Bland.
~ Bruce Coville
He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.
~ Carl Sagan
Dar gândurile lui erau sec?tuite È™i sumbre È™i, în t?cerea ce le urm?, se pomeni fa??-n fa?? cu spectrul rânjit al propriei disper?ri.
~ Terry Brooks
The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.
~ Terry Goodkind
Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost
~ Terry Pratchett
GENERALLY PEOPLE LIKE TO MOVE ON, Death hinted. THEY LOOK FORWARD TO AN AFTERLIFE. "I Will Stay Here, Please." HERE? THERE'S NOTHING TO DO HERE, said Death. "Yes, I Know," said the ghost of the golem. "It Is Perfect. I Am Free.
~ Terry Pratchett
The Surly One 1 When true love broke my heart in half, I took the whisky from the shelf, And told my neighbors when to laugh. I keep a dog, and bark myself. 2 Ghost cries out to ghost – But who's afraid of that? I fear those shadows most That start from my own feet.
~ Theodore Roethke
When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette. But you're not dead. I suppose the question must be, are you good?
~ Karen Chance
When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.
~ Karen Chance
And that was despite the fact that she wasn't really here. I could see stars through her on the other side, although she wasn't a ghost. I knew ghosts. It was more like she was on an intertemporal version of Skype.
~ Karen Chance
I shifted back onto the plane, fuming, and a ghost popped in. That wouldn't normally require comment, as it happens to me all the time—one of the annoyances of being clairvoyant. But this was a little different since this ghost I knew.
~ Karen Chance