Ghost Quotes
1154 quotes by 732 authors
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For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half…
— Walker Percy
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Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the…
— Robert Graves
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He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the…
— Rebecca Stead
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I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that…
— Breece D'J Pancake
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Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the…
— Anne Michaels
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A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Bad dreams are ghosts of our fears and worries, haunting us while we sleep. I doubt Valek is in trouble.
— Maria V. Snyder
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I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were.…
— Rodman Philbrick
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There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?
— Stan Rice
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As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.
— Orhan Pamuk
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We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers…
— Khalil Gibran
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I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.
— Ilsa J. Bick
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I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I…
— Henry James
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After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks.…
— Walter de La Mare
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He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons. I hadn’t seen one in…
— Rick Riordan
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She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down on the wound.…
— Michael Grant
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