Ghost Quotes - Page 10

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

Let us honor the Holy Ghost.

Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.

Despair and die. The ghosts

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.

I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires.

If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.