Ghost Quotes - Page 3

Those who believe in ghosts always see them.

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.

No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science ignores them. But to claim they are a fabrication and do not exist because science ignores them is a mistake. Because ghosts are real.

Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

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

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.