Ghosts Quotes
423 quotes by 324 authors
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The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by…
— Norman Doidge
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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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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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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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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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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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Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a…
— Jodi Picoult
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I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It…
— Terry McMillan
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We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely…
— Daphne du Maurier
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Sorry, we've got ghosts.
— Deborah Harkness
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People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.
— Neil Gaiman
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For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs…
— Ayn Rand
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But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the…
— Rick Yancey
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... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's…
— Charles de Lint
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Ashley tugged on his sleeve. "You're scaring me Walter." "Sorry I guess talking about ghosts is-" "It's not that," she interrupted shaking her head. "You're…
— Bryan Davis
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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
— Ann Brashares
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I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.
— Jodi Picoult
Who Wrote These Ghosts Quotes
324 authors contributed a total of 423 Ghosts Quotes, led by these top contributors: