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Quotes About Ghost

Madness, you say? Exactly! A sober church never does any good. At this hour we need men drunk with the Holy Ghost.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
It was like I'd become a ghost without having to go through the messy intermediate step of actually dying.
~ Lev Grossman
One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.
~ Javier Marías
All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of two ways: You are dead or I am dead . If people only understood this, Portia thought, they would never be frightened, they would only need to ask themselves, Who among us has died? And then she occurred to her that she was the ghost in her story. She had spent years haunting her own life, without ever noticing.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
If haunting is anything, perhaps that's what it is; time in the wrong place.
~ Jeanette Winterson
A ghost in this place. That's what I am. Or I'm real and Manhattan is a dream.
~ Tom Spanbauer
A ghost! Mr. Crepsley shouted. Absurd! Absolutely, Gavner agreed with a grin. Vampires don't believe in crazy things like ghosts, do we, Larten?
~ Darren Shan
Every love story is a ghost story.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never
~ David Foster Wallace
Não tenho dormido. Entre a ação de um ato terrível e o primeiro gesto, todo esse intervalo é como um fantasma ou um sonho odioso: O Génio e os instrumentos mortais estão nessa altura reunidos; e a condição do homem, equiparável a um pequeno reino, sofre então a natureza de uma insurreição.
~ William Shakespeare
I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.
~ William Shakespeare
Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe. Remember thee?
~ William Shakespeare
Logan lowers his head close to mine. 'Just know this, Ivy Calhhoun,' he begins. 'If I werena a ghost I would open all door for you, properly.
~ Unknown
Just like a ghost, you've been a-hauntin' my dreams, So I'll propose on Halloween. Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you.
~ Unknown
Each community lives by its own rules in a disconnected, parallel universe. Integration is like a ghost people speak of but no one ever sees.
~ Clifford Thurlow
In the night I was asleep,' Christophe says. 'It was some old ghost, I suppose.' 'Surely not,' Riche says. 'I never heard of ghosts that walk in June.' There's something in that. It was the veiled ladies—living women, as far as one knows—who attended him, till dawn came and they faded into the wall. He remembers the dappling of their garments, the streaks of darkness where they had wiped the queen's blood on their robes.
~ Hilary Mantel
We strove for a name, while the light of the lamps burnt thin and the outer dawn came in, a ghost, the last at the feast or the first, to sit within with the two that remained to quibble in flowers and verse over a girl's name.
~ Hilda Doolittle
You're scheming,' the Ghost says, noticing my gaze. ... 'I'm always scheming,' I return.
~ Holly Black
Thus she spoke; and I longed to embrace my dead mother's ghost. Thrice I tried to clasp her image, and thrice it slipped through my hands, like a shadow, like a dream.
~ Homer
I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I've seen a few.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
But I realised it wasn't a ghost, it was his SPIRIT and then I realised that a spirit is just another word for a memory, isn't it? The stronger the memory the stronger the spirit. Because as much as I'd love to believe that the spirit lives on as a thing separate to humanity, I know that's not true. It's in our minds, in our hearts, that a person's spirit lives on.
~ Lisa Jewell
It's me, love," he said softly. "Everything's all right." Daisy managed to whisper through dry lips. "If you're a ghost...I hope you haunt me forever." Matthew sat on the floor and reached for her cold hands. "Would a ghost use the door?" he asked gently, bringing her fingers to his scratched, battered face.
~ Lisa Kleypas
But I barely had time to put my coffee cup down on my desk when I received a visitation from the Ghost of Christmas Gone Terribly Wrong, in the person of Israel Salguero, from Internal Affairs.
~ Jeff Lindsay