Ghost Quotes

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The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity,… — Charles Dickens
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted… — Charles Dickens
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it… — Thomas Carlyle
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,… — John Dryden
Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains… — Virginia Woolf
I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us.… — Henrik Ibsen
I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a… — Robert M. Pirsig
People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get… — Matthew Macfadyen
After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch… — Oren Peli
I don't necessarily not believe in ghosts, but I've never seen a ghost. A ghost has never jumped out and been like, 'Hey, how's it… — Sara Paxton
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride… — Sara Paretsky
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch. — Jessica Szohr
I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my… — R L Stine
I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in… — Rachael Taylor
New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I wish ghosts were real! — Holly Madison
I believe in spirits, not ghosts. — Kendra Wilkinson
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster,… — John Malkovich
I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around. — James Herbert

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