Forgotten Quote by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.

— Leslie What

Many memories were long forgotten, and many became ghosts.

— Blackmore's Night

...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Sue Grafton

Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging…

— Rick Yancey

I've always been attracted to the idea of ghosts being memories frozen in time, that a psychological haunting can be just as terrifying as…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

“A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes…

— Nathan Ballingrud

People aren't quiet about their experiences with ghosts anymore.

— Zak Bagans

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

Sometimes a man's spirit just ain't strong enough to withstand the ghosts from his past.

— Kirina Joanna Cowman

“Ghosts are just pieces of memory. They haunt us because we don't want to forget. We are the ghost makers. We take fragments of…

— Carrie Arcos