Ghostly Quotes

73 quotes by 60 authors

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. — Wilkie Collins
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian… — Fritz Leiber
A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around." "Funny, I feel that way about you… — Richelle Mead
What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by… — Amitav Ghosh
My New Yearâ€™s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories,… — Patricia Highsmith
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing… — Alice Sebold
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a… — Alfred Noyes
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. — William Wordsworth
When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability… — Fernando Pessoa
She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues… — William Gibson
They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hillsâ€”a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight. "Is that it?"… — Gordon Korman
He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined,… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright. — Maud Hart Lovelace
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is… — Tim O'Brien
I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if thereâ€™s some… — Kelley Armstrong
The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not… — Catherynne M. Valente
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. — Jack London
The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like… — Zelda Fitzgerald
Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real… — Fernando Pessoa

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