Ghostly Quotes

73 quotes by 60 authors

A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it… — Wentworth Miller
And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over… — Alberto Manguel
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ... — John M. Geddes
I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are… — Jack Kerouac
The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind… — Charles Dickens
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel… — E L Doctorow
Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no… — Jeff Belanger
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited… — Leon M. Lederman
The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where… — Charles Dickens
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of… — Richard Le Gallienne
You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows. — Joni Mitchell
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know… — Henry Suso
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those… — Truman Capote
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a… — Alberto Manguel
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was… — Stephen King
The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a… — Jack Kerouac
The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild… — Richard Russo

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