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Quotes About Ghostly

Standing on the deck of a San Francisco ferryboat, in a gray suit so precisely the same colour as the fog that he seems (as in a not particularly scary movie) to be a ghostly floating head
~ Andrew Sean Greer
in a gray suit so precisely the same color as the fog that he seems (as in a not particularly scary movie) to be a ghostly floating head.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
FRED THE GHOSTLY GHOST
~ Andy Griffiths
It was easier to just float along as if sleeping that whole first part of the year, going through the motions and staring like one of those ghostly dolls, waiting for something to wake me up.
~ Sarah Dessen
If you look like a ghost, you feel like a ghost.
~ Ryan Leaf
Karl stood up slowly. He was caked with filth, but the dirt was nothing to him. He felt divorced from the squalor. He and Kristian were spectres glimpsed only by the dying.
~ Freda Warrington
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hyserical laughter...the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever. A Bit of the Dark World
~ Fritz Leiber
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
~ Andrew Pyper
Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.
~ Virginia Woolf
Carlos describes the sensation of having his cells vibrate and dissolve as he is transported by a light beam, leaving behind a kind of ghostly shape.
~ John E. Mack
a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...
~ John Geddes
Many a check at the memory pales; The jubilant music faints and fails, Dying in low and mournful wails For those whose graves are green; The crowd grows still with a conscious dread, So still that you almost hear the tread, The ghostly tread of the gallant dead Who walk in the ranks unseen.
~ ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN
Maybe I was haunted, because I swear I felt a fleeting sense of contact, then, like the brush of immaterial fingers in my hair.
~ Elizabeth Bear
No mortal lights illuminated the scene: not even a few candles flickering dimly in the windows of the White Tower. There was only the ethereal moonlit glow surrounding the court of the Daoine Sidhe, who waited on fair steeds like so many ghostly riders on a procession out of Hell.
~ Elizabeth Bear
still—it could not be fairly called wooing a woman to tell her that he would never woo her. It must be admitted to be a ghostly kind of wooing.
~ George Eliot
No one knows how to feel anything anymore. No one knows anymore. Ain't no one care. People have, like, experiences. Everything just another experience. They do things, but they don't feel it. It just all goes right through them. Like they a ghost. Like we all ghosts.
~ Sara Gran
Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.
~ Robert Pollok
En ocasiones, en la vieja casa encantada del cerebro, oigo a lo lejos, alguna puerta olvidada. La música de una lejana fiesta espectral, y la agitación de los ecos bajo el chirriante suelo.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Thanks so much for seeing, the first time you met us, that even though we're like ghosts, the two of us, even though we're not supposed to exist, we are alive." I
~ Banana Yoshimoto
I always say I want to look haunted.
~ Kristen Wiig
I like haunted things.
~ Matthew Gray Gubler
What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep! ("The Testimony of the Suns")
~ George Sterling
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.
~ Stephen King
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain