Quotes About Ghost

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

I felt the cancelled life dreaming after me. Yes, a ghost. A vestige. Something remaining.

The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that I felt the ghost of my vanished house rise around me, a cold mountain wind thrumming past its walls, and thought that, if I reached down, I could feel Adso's soft gray fur under my fingers. I swallowed, hard.

You know Mountgerald, the big house at the end of the High Street? There's a ghost there, a workman on the house who was killed as a sacrifice for the foundation. In the eighteenth century sometime; that's really fairly recent," he added thoughtfully.

Il venait parfoid chez Alex quand je m'y trouvais, mais, le plus souvent, il m'attendait, tapi sous une porte cochère, et surgissait du brouillard derrière moi. C'était éprouvant pour les nerfs : j'avais l'impression d'être poursuivie par le fantôme de Frank.

Lord John's response to the revelation of my identity was both puzzling and disturbing; you would think the man had seen a ghost. I squinted at my violet reflection, admiring the glitter of the black-and-gold fish at my throat, but failed to see anything unsettling in my appearance.

be reassured, but hunched his skinny shoulders, peering closely at Mr. Buchanan. "Josh says Angelina says the ghost was

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and remembered nightmares.

I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.

Give her hell from us, Peeves.

All the old stories have it wrong, because it's not the ghost that haunts the house; it's the house that haunts the ghost.

All the old stories have it wrong, because it's not the ghost that haunts the house; it's the house that haunts the ghost. I feel lost out here, and everything reminds me that I'm not quite real. In the end it's always home that damns us.

There's no reason to fear anything when you float through the world like a dusty black ghost.

How would you know she is a ghost? Many of the living are vague and adrift too, it's not a failing unique to the departed.

There is also a third kind of ghost victory that's essentially a special case of the second. It occurs when measures become the mission. This is the most destructive form of ghost victory, because it's possible to ace your measures while undermining your mission.

Suicides, almost by definition, are all ghosts - stuck earthbound because they are desperate to apologize to their loved ones or because they are so ashamed of themselves.

Mooooooooooom!" When I yell like that, she can come quick as a ghost, the air empty one minute and full of her the next.

I'm 25 admitted the ghost. But I feel much older How old do you feel? Ancient, sometimes. Like, 30

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

Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seatin this distracted globe. Remember thee?

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

You can't miss me, because I was never there.

Running away from the ghost of depression can also be a tonic. Frightened of being immobilized by despair, depressives often fling themselves into frantic activity. Hoping to keep the gloom at bay, they work until they drop, seem to have inhuman stores of energy, and create art nonstop. They can't afford to stop. If they slow down, the missile of depression might catch up with them.