Ghost Quotes

1154 quotes by 732 authors

[Happiness is] a ghost, itâ€™s a shadow. You canâ€™t really chase it. Itâ€™s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well. — Eric Weiner
There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter… — Deepak Chopra
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing… — Charles Dickens
The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts. — Lisa Ann Sandell
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able… — Jonathan Safran Foer
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am… — P.G. Wodehouse
We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens,… — Francesca Lia Block
When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories weâ€™ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best… — Robert M. Pirsig
Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby? — Jim Harrison
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… — Don DeLillo
Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you… — C.S. Lewis
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?… — Libba Bray
Despair and die. The ghosts — William Shakespeare
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette. But youâ€™re not dead. I suppose… — Karen Chance

Who Wrote These Ghost Quotes

732 authors contributed a total of 1,154 Ghost Quotes, led by these top contributors: