Ghosts Quotes

423 quotes by 324 authors

Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when… — Alberto Manguel
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. — Robert A. Heinlein
...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds. — Unknown Author
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat… — William Shakespeare
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to… — William Shakespeare
The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted… — Charles Dickens
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it… — Thomas Carlyle
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,… — John Dryden
Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains… — Virginia Woolf
I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us.… — Henrik Ibsen
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a… — Robert M. Pirsig
People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get… — Matthew Macfadyen
After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch… — Oren Peli
I don't necessarily not believe in ghosts, but I've never seen a ghost. A ghost has never jumped out and been like, 'Hey, how's it… — Sara Paxton
New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I wish ghosts were real! — Holly Madison
I believe in spirits, not ghosts. — Kendra Wilkinson
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster,… — John Malkovich

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