Ghost Quotes

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I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search… — Evelyn Waugh
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too… — Gaston Leroux
It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your… — Sarah Dessen
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift… — Rebecca West
When the hearthfire turns to blue, what to do? what to do? run outside, run and hide when his eyes are black as crow? where… — Patrick Rothfuss
Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a… — Anais Nin
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. — Ray Bradbury
For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers… — Saul Williams
Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did… — John O'Donohue
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But… — James Joyce
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans,… — Jack Kerouac
(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A… — Cormac McCarthy
I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of. — Meg Rosoff
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in… — Washington Irving
O lost, And by the wind grieved, Ghost, Come back again. — Thomas Wolfe
One boy's footprints are not long in being lost in the snow, in the steadily falling snow of the shortest day, the longest night; they… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or… — Mark Haddon
We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We… — Unknown Author
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost. — T.H. White

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