Ghost Quotes

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People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do… — Neil Gaiman
Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. — Henry Miller
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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… — Virginia Woolf
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I… — Emile M. Cioran
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I… — Jack Kerouac
taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the… — Gustave Flaubert
If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone… — William H. Gass
...for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been… — Anchee Min
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies. — Neil Gaiman
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. — Cynthia Ozick
Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts. — C.S. Lewis
And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say… — C.S. Lewis
Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of… — Robert Lowell
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. — Alberto Manguel
It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight. — Patricia Briggs
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through.… — Brigham Young
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this… — Haruki Murakami

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