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Quotes About Ghost

we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.
~ Jeffrey J. Kripal
She had stumbled across a ghost, and her touch had conjured the apparition.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff
Once again, Jake held Lily's hand tight as they made their way across the creek, loud and swollen, the morning mist rising over it like a ghost.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff
There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
You are a ghost, Andi," she says. "Almost gone." I look at her. I want to say something but I can't get the words out. She squeezes my hands. "Come back to us," she says. And she's gone.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
You are a ghost. Almost gone. Come back to us.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
What about what other people deserve?" I asked vehemently. "Did my mother deserve to die without you there? Did she deserve to spend my entire life in love with a ghost?" "Hannah deserved the world." "So why didn't you give it to her?" I asked. "Why was punishing yourself more important than what she wanted?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
What's the difference, I wondered, between a ghost and a memory?
~ Jennifer McMahon
Because after suffering a loss, you become a ghost in your own body. You observe yourself doing things and saying things that you might not normally do or say. You need something to ground you and prove to you that you're still here. As a way of feeling something. Anything.
~ Jennifer Niven
You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe — I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
~ Emily Bronte
The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her! Well, Hareton's aspect was the ghost of my immortal love; of my wild endevours to hold my right ; my degradation, my pride, my hapiness, and my anguish-
~ Emily Bronte
the ghost of my immortal love; of my wild endeavours to hold my right; my degradation, my pride, my happiness, and my anguish
~ Emily Bronte
My mother's ghost lived in the courtyard of one of Ashur's undersea castles.
~ Emily Devenport
I'd love to watch TV all the time, but it rots our brains. Before I came down from Heaven Ma left it on all day long and got turned into a zombie that's like a ghost but walks 'thump thump.' So now she always switches off after one show, then the cells multiply again in the day and we can watch another show after dinner and grow more brains in our sleep.
~ Emma Donoghue
I waved my hand in front of my face, obi-wan style. I am not here. Niall's mucas glands kicked into overdrive. Eoin's dead! And his ghost is standing right there on the grass! Donal let out a long suffering sigh. Eoin is being a writer. Niall calmed down, becuase everyone knows writers are weird and are always doing stupid thingss.
~ Eoin Colfer
Holly took a moment to study a painting that dominated one wall. 'Oh, give me a break,' she said. The picture was in oils. Completely white. There was a brass plaque beneath. It read 'Snow Ghost'.
~ Eoin Colfer
You are a ghost, like you were a ghost before because you were never here, but everywhere at once, i wish i could talk like my eyes can see, word you with what i smell, knock your socks off with aromas of a tiny metropolis tourists only catch glimpses of at the Wharf. A thousand LSD trips and middle-aged folks remembering Timothy Leary playing like a Pied Piper leading them all off to jump off the pier.
~ Ana Castillo
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
~ Tabitha King
'Boo & Hiss' has been a passion project of mine for a couple of years. I was intrigued with the idea of what would happen in a classic cartoon predator/prey relationship if the predator - in this case, a cat - got to finally do in his adversary only to have the mouse return as a ghost and bedevil the cat.
~ Paul Dini
I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.
~ Eric Bana
How does it feel to be helpless, Led? To depend on something that fails you? There's no more running from who you are; no one to hold you together anymore. You're alone now-- The ghost of Tokyo has come for you all.
~ Rick Remender
in a world of monsters, you had to be a ghost to survive.
~ Rob Thurman
Nothing is more lethal to the effect that a ghost story should make than for the author to provide alternative materialist solution. This reduces a poem to a puzzle and confines the reader's spirit instead of enlarging it.
~ Robert Aickman
Dr. Freud established that only a small part, perhaps one-tenth, of the human mental and emotional organization is conscious. Our main response to this discovery has been to reject the nine-tenths unconscious more completely and more systematically than ever before. The ghost story makes contact with the submerged nine-tenths.
~ Robert Aickman