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Ghosts Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar
- But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.
- This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?
More Ghosts Quotes
- A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. — George Matthew Adams
- Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to. — Richard Harris Barham
- On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the… — David Bowie
- In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not. — Jessica Alba
- I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions. — Taylor Caldwell
- The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. — Italo Calvino
- When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
- Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall. — Adelaide Crapsey
- There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. — Madison Cawein
- The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the… — Francois Fenelon
- A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand… — James M. Barrie
- Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows… — George Henry Lewes