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Quotes About Ghost

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?
~ William Gass
A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I never really had any God at all, just an imagined one, an inherited ghost.
~ Erik Fosnes Hansen
Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!
~ Joseph Fielding Smith
The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.
~ William Butler Yeats
A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.
~ Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
One time I stayed at a haunted motel. When I checked into my room, there was a sheet on the floor, and I thought it was a ghost that had passed out, so I kicked it.
~ Mitch Hedberg
The service at this airport restaurant is so bad I'm starting to panic that I'm a ghost.
~ Kristen Schaal
That is when you know you have reached the point of no return, when you began to stalk a ghost.
~ S.R. Gibbs, The Inner Kingdom
At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn't exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.
~ Kelly Moran, Give Up the Ghost
This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous.
~ Kelly Moran, Give Up the Ghost
He's a ghost, not a carnival magician.-Benny Imura
~ Jonathan Maberry, Flesh & Bone
Even God forgives stupidity. So many married people, heaven would be a ghost town otherwise.
~ Yatin Patel
He had been good with presents, she'll give him that, that ghost. Payoffs were his specialty.
~ Jami Attenberg
It came over me, then, that any woman who ever loves more than one man must carry forever with her, in her heart, a ghost. There is no new thing for her to learn. It has all been done before.
~ Janice Holt Giles
if I moved at the speed of light, I could get no confirmation of my existence from an objective source of reflected lightsuch as a mirror. I would be like a ghost in the universe, materially unverifiable in the stream of time.
~ E.L. DoctorowDoctorow
Since then he had been walking with a ghost: the miserable ghost of his illusion. Only he had somehow vivified, coloured, substantiated it, by the force of his own great need – as a man might breathe a semblance of life into a dear drowned body that he cannot give up for dead.
~ Edith Wharton
I had not realized how far gone she was and how much she dreaded the homecoming, the ghost. We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us to the truth.
~ Edna O'Brien
Each night Father fills me with dread When he sits on the foot of my bed; I'd not mind that he speaks In gibbers and squeaks, But for seventeen years he's been dead.
~ Edward Gorey
Japanese anime such as Akira (Otomo, 1988), Oneamisu No Tsubasa (Wings of Honneamise, Yamaga, 1987/1994) and Kokaku kidotai (Ghost in the Shell, Oshii, 1995), and strange live-action movies such as Ganheddo (Gunhed, Harada, 1989), Tetsuo (The Iron Man, Tsukamoto, 1989) and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (Tsukamoto, 1991) found international success.
~ Edward James
The only way to save them is to immediately sever them from the place where they are born. Otherwise they will always spend too much time chasing a shadow they can never reach… San manman, motherless, was the way you described someone who was lost, brutal and cruel. Fantom, ghost, was another. People without mothers, it was believed, were capable of anything.
~ Edwidge Danticat
I have been reading about the Neutron Bomb. I want to be like that, radiant and deadly, a ghost of an impact, to pass through walls, to kill everyone, in flight among the empty houses, punching through molecules like a knife through a paper bag.
~ Alexander Chee
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
~ Alexander Smith
Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.
~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati