Grief Quote by Carolyn Parkhurst

“I think I might like to meet some ghosts. The dead aren't scary. It's the living who do the terrifying things.”

— Suki Fleet

“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure…

— Vaddey Ratner

“If this is what death was like it's no wonder people had such a horror of the idea of ghosts.”

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

“The spirits of the dead are all around us, but it is we, the living, that are the true hungry ghosts.”

— John Dolan

“The agony of the dead is with us, and we hear their screams and walk among their ghosts. We cannot avert our eyes or…

— Ken Liu

“This is what keeps ghosts locked to the earth, that sweet burning need for something they loved and gave up too soon.”

— Cathie Pelletier

“I know these ghosts. I know what it's like to move around in the world, but not really be a part of it. And…

— Jodi Picoult

“No substitute for the living, perhaps, but I wasn’t given a choice. I could take solace in their presence or I could fall down…

— Christina Baker Kline

“A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along…

— Peter Ackroyd

“The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes,…

— Dean Koontz

“I believe in evil, but not in ghosts. Only we humans can be evil; we don’t need ghosts for that.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“I had already passed beyond the point of death and was now keeping company with ghosts who had joyfully come to claim me as…

— Paul Sayer