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Quotes About Ghost

You could see the skeleton behind the man, and almost the ghost behind the skeleton.
~ Thomas Hardy
The Papacy is not other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Who is this ghost ordered into music?
~ Kazuko Shiraishi
Hidden in the pockets of the things that frighten him most is the realization that he doesn't like his mother. Once, he did, but she was different back then, full of love and light. Now she's a ghost playing at being alive, a faded sheet hung upon a coatrack, only there to ensure he doesn't become a ghost too.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.
~ Kedar Joshi
Later: Woke up at 3:00 am and crept into Davids room. I talked to David about the ghost who came to live in his body, the sad soul who was taken back into the earth. David's trophies are dusty again.
~ Kelly Easton
Where was it written that I, child of no one, deserved such joy? It only happened at night, this abyss of dread, never during the day. Only in the empty hours between today and yesterday, when I was alone with my sleeping lover and the weight of the past crept upon me like a reproachful ghost.
~ C.W. Gortner
Personally I wasn't one but surprised to walk into that theater and see Jo O'Connor's ghost. I knew as soon as I put my hand on the door handle that something funny was going on. I got all sort of lightheaded." Probably the blood trying to find its way through the labyrinth of your brain.
~ Cameron Dokey
Do you know why they're putting a bench in the herb garden? So Jo's ghost will have a congenial place to sit when she visits the campus. Suzy Neptune actually said that, right out loud." "I admit that is a little weird," Elaine said.
~ Cameron Dokey
Go back to your ghost , I hear Bryn telling me. But she has it wrong. Bryn is the one who's been living with the ghost-the specter of a man who never stopped loving someone else.
~ Gayle Forman
'Tis but the wraith of love; yet I linger.
~ George Arnold
O death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest. Let pass my weary guilty ghost out of my careful breast.
~ Iris Murdoch
become a ghost. They've killed several
~ Isabel Allende
We have a tried and tested system of government that, in being so flexible, exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.
~ J. M. Parkin
When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.
~ Judith Wright
I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.
~ Lennie James
Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.
~ Nora Roberts
This ghost was the ship.
~ Susan Meissner
Sometimes a disappearance can be more haunting than an apparition.
~ Mark Fisher
Sometimes when you are sad enough, your soul becomes ghost for you.
~ Irfan ishaq
Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost…cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow.
~ Munia Khan
Your kiss just seems too realYour touch the only thing I feelFrom your presence I can't seem to healA love without a sealThe faceless ghost in my dreams that I can't evade
~ Evy Michaels
Every family is a ghost story.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Una strana fatalità sembra costringere ogni essere umano ad aggirarsi, simile ad un fantasma, nei luoghi dove qualche grave avvenimento ha lasciato un profondo solco nella vita di lui; e codesta fatalità è tanto più inesorabile, quanto più quel solco sia di tristezza e di dolore.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne