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Quotes About Ghost

I heard your guts had been blasted out," he said to Sebastian. "But since you don't look to be a ghost, I suppose the story was false." "Actually, it's true," Sebastian replied, his gaze chilling. "But the devil wouldn't have me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.
~ Unknown
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.
~ Unknown
Hey, He croaked. You. Arrogant bitch ghost. I'm not really into this whole hero thing, Mort said. Don't have the temperament for it. Don't know a lot about the villain side of the equation, either. He planted his feet,facing the Corpsetaker squarely, his hands clenched into fist at his side. But it seems to me, you half-wit, that you probably shouldn't have left a freaking ectomancer a pit full of wraiths to play with.
~ Jim Butcher
Even days that culminate in a grand battle against an insane ghost and a trip across the border between this world and the spirit realm usually start out pretty normally.
~ Jim Butcher
Birthdays are [soul chasers,] ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask [the usual question[, "Qué pasa, baby?" (The Raw and the Cooked)
~ Jim Harrison
Birthdays are [soul chasers,] ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask [the usual question], "Qué pasa, baby?
~ Jim Harrison
Thrice would I have thrown my arms about her neck, and thrice the ghost embraced fled from my grasp: like a fluttering breeze, like a fleeting dream.
~ Virgil
BaÅŸlar?nda saç yerine tavuskuÅŸu tüyleri olan ruhlar; bir alev çevriminden bir y?ld?za doÄŸru giden hayalet; ruhun simgesi olan ve yar?ya kadar eliyle gizlediÄŸi yanardöner bir küreyle geçen ruh. Ama hep insan?n k?r?lgan umutlar?na yönelen ÅŸefkatli bir öÄŸüdün gizlediÄŸi renk yeÄŸniliÄŸi alt?nda.
~ W. B. Yeats
This Lunar Beauty This lunar beauty Has no history, Is complete and early; If beauty later Bear any feature It had a lover And is another. This like a dream Keeps other time, And daytime is The loss of this; For time is inches And the heart's changes Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted. But this was never A ghost's endeavour Nor, finished this, Was ghost at ease; And till it pass Love shall not near The sweetness here Nor sorrow take His endless look.
~ W.H. Auden
Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.
~ Andrew W.K.
He is survived by the ghost of his mother; Yetta, of Beth Something-or-other Cemetery, Neptune, New Jersey, who haunted him unceasingly during the last year of his life.
~ Philip Roth
She had not thought that the ghost of her husband would come early—in life he was always late for everything
~ Philippa Gregory
All the people speak of a hero like a ghost or a sleeping saint, or a pretender. It would almost make you believe that there is an heir of York hidden out in the hills, a king waiting for the call to battle, sleeping like the true Arthur of England, ready to rise. People love to dream, so how should anyone contradict them?
~ Philippa Gregory
Dor wondered whether, if he should ever happen to be a ghost for eight hundred years, zombies might begin to look good to him. He doubted it.
~ Piers Anthony
SOCRATES: Will you understand my answer? Rhetoric, according to my view, is the ghost or counterfeit of a part of politics. POLUS: And noble or ignoble? SOCRATES: Ignoble, I should say, if I am compelled to answer, for I call what is bad ignoble: though I doubt whether you understand what I was saying before. GORGIAS: Indeed, Socrates, I cannot say that I understand myself.
~ Plato
And that's when I heard it. That's when I heard the ghost's harsh whisper. It seemed to be coming from the open closet. "Welcome …" I heard. "Welcome. Welcome to your DOOM.
~ R.L. Stine
There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit! Unquiet spirit? Shane said under his breath. Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?
~ Rachel Caine
Eve said, in a high, squeaky, airless voice, "The ghost! You're the ghost Miranda was talking about! Oh my God, Michael, you're the ghost! You bastard!" He nodded, still concentrating on breathing. Eve got control of her voice and squealed, "That is without a doubt the coolest damn thing I have ever seen in my entire life!
~ Rachel Caine
Myrnin: I think your ghost girl's afraid I'll try to bite her. I believe she may have, you know, mental issues ...
~ Rachel Caine
Because what Miranda represents . . . it's dead, as dead to me as Gwen's marriage is to her. I tell myself that, even as I recognize that Melvin's ghost has never stopped haunting either one of us. Dead doesn't mean gone.
~ Rachel Caine
But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
~ Rachel Cohn
Boo seemed to be less a ghost than he was a guardian spirit, always happy and ready to serve, still on the earth not because he had remained behind after death but because he had been sent back. Consequently, perhaps he had the power and permission to move between worlds as he wished.
~ Dean Koontz
While he watched, the phenomenon diminished. The whirl of leaves settled, and the night grew still once more. As the last leaves floated to rest on the grass, John thought he heard a familiar sigh of pleasure, one he hadn't heard for a long time. If this had been a ghost, it had been a blithe spirit. Filled with sudden wonder, remembering their golden retriever that had died two years earlier, John whispered, "Willard?
~ Dean Koontz