Quotes About Ghost

A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, [...]; and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors.

It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

I was proceeding slowly one afternoon through torrents of rain and kept seeing that red ghost swimming and shivering with lust in my mirror, when presently the deluge dwindled to a patter, and then was suspended altogether.

More and more uncomfortable did Humbert feel. It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

We must assume, I think, that the forward projection of what imagination he had, stopped at the act, on the brink of all its possible consequences; ghost consequences, comparable to the ghost toes of an amputee or to the fanning out of additional squares which a chess knight (that skipspace piece), standing on a marginal file, feels in phantom extensions beyond the board, but which have no effect whatever on his real moves, on the real play.

He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.

Maybe there's a place for a rebel ghost within the Order's ranks after all." - Lucan

The word ghost is only used in the Bible a few times, but nonetheless it is mentioned. Several passages include: Matt. 14:26; Mark 6:49; Isaiah. 29:14; and Luke 24:37-39. The Bible references the disciples witnessing Jesus walking on the water during a storm. What they believed they were seeing was a ghost, rather than Jesus walking on the water. After the resurrection, his disciples thought he was ghost, but he let them touch him

The second type of haunting is what is called an intelligent haunting. In an intelligent haunting, the spirit seems to have a personality of its own and may show emotion. It interacts with the living.

Tal vez, de tanto fingir que era un fantasma, estaba transformándose poco a poco en un de ellos

Even my identity has been kept hidden from me. It is a child's ghost buried in mud. It is an old woman waving at me from a passing train.

She smiles and slips her arm through his. Her tread is light and bouncy and I can almost see the ghost of her cheerleader's ponytail bobbing at the back of her head.

The only death the spirit recognizes is the denial of birth to that which strives to be born: those realities in ourselves that we have not allowed to live. The real ghost is a strange, persistent beggar at a narrow door asking to be born; asking, again and again, for admission at the gateway of our lives. Such ghosts I had, and thus, beyond all reason, I continued to be haunted.

The Ghastly Ghost at My Gate

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

I am the Ghost of Christmas Present.

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past." "Long past?" inquired Scrooge…. "No. Your past."

"I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?" said Scrooge.

An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.