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Quotes About Ghost

I should like to see any man's biography with corrections and emendations by his ghost. We don't know each other's secrets quite so well as we flatter ourselves we do. We don't always know our own secrets as well as we might.
~ Unknown
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
~ Osamu Dazai
Without pain, it feels almost like I don't have a body at all, almost like I'm a ghost, sitting in a chair, blinded and eternal. Like I'm dead already. Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt? "We are the choices we make, Todd," the Mayor says. "Nothing more, nothing less.
~ Patrick Ness
I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.
~ Paul Auster
I'm ghost, the afterlife is just a lay-up away.
~ Paul Beatty
Caroline's beloved Brocket Hall has been transformed by a Hong Kong developer into a hotel and conference center. There are rumoured sightings of her ghost in the hotel, at which, of course, one scoffs. Yet, walking the road from the train stop in Welwyn to the Hertfordshire Records Office one gray January morning, I still find it hard to believe she is entirely gone.
~ Unknown
The pain between them made me as envious as their laughter, because it was real and expressible, blood-red with passion, and not the invisible pain of a ghost like me. Sometimes my head filled with a scream that went on for hours but was silenced by the walls of the closet. My face still wearing its social smile fixed in place as if by a stroke.
~ Paul Monette
The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must be banished.
~ Paul S. Kemp
There's an old ghost story about that, I remember, how the devil steals souls by asking for them openly. He isn't a thief, but a master manipulator. The real danger, or so the story goes, isn't in the devil himself, but in not knowing you have a choice to turn him away.
~ Paula McLain
but none of it was real any more. We lived on a ghost farm.
~ Paula McLain
There's an old ghost story about that, I remember, about how the devil steals souls by asking for them openly. He isn't a thief, but a master manipulator. The real danger, or so the story goes, isn't in the devil himself, but in not knowing you have a choice to turn him away.
~ Paula McLain
A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Death is a terrible thing, Tom," he sobbed. "Life's worse," said The Wounded Bad Man gently. He was seated apart, with the baby in his arms, shielding it from the sun with his broad sombrero. "Death can only get you once, but Life is a ghost dance. I wonder what it has in store for you, kidlets. I wonder.
~ Unknown
When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified. “Itís a ghost!” they said, and cried out in fear.
~ Matthew 14:26
but when they saw Him walking on the sea, they cried out, thinking He was a ghost—
~ Mark 6:49