Ghosts Quotes

423 quotes by 324 authors

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see… — Stephen King
That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all,… — Libba Bray
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as… — Banana Yoshimoto
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. — Arthur C. Clarke
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts. — Henry Miller
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people… — Virginia Woolf
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I… — Emile M. Cioran
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies. — Neil Gaiman
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. — Cynthia Ozick
Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts. — C.S. Lewis
And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say… — C.S. Lewis
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. — Alberto Manguel
It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight. — Patricia Briggs
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
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

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