Ghosts Quotes

423 Ghosts quotes by 324 unique authors

You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds… — Hilary Mantel
Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them. — Sue Grafton
Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who… — Stephen King
Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind."… — Christina Baker Kline
Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided. — Maureen Johnson
Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do. — Alexandra Bracken
As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy London air, and… — Cassandra Clare
It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the… — Elizabeth Wein
Laura wonâ€™t hurt you,â€ I said, wrestling him for control. â€œSheâ€™s one of the sweetest ghosts I ever met. She just likes to play.â€ â€œYeah,… — Karen Chance
...you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all. — Laurell K. Hamilton
There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with… — Peter Rollins
If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts. — Sharon Needles
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,… — G. M. Trevelyan
The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The… — John Updike
Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the… — Richard Gilman
What scares me? I kind of believe in ghosts. I believe they can wander around, so that scares me. But the stuff that really scares… — Annabeth Gish
I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a… — Meaghan Rath
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder. — Octavian Paler
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen… — John Logan
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas… — Alice Oswald

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