Dull Quote by Charles de Lint Download Open image “Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.” — Charles de Lint ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dull Ghost People Stupid Stupid people Way
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about. — Leslie What Copy Share Image
Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time. — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb. — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
“Remember that ghosts can read your mind and recognize your fear, and if you don’t respect them by entering their world with knowledge and… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Maybe she couldn’t go. Maybe she wanted him to stay. But she knew enough not to try to hold him back if he had… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“You hear this kind of thing, rednecks and their guys and--" "Don't call them that," I say. "They're just assholes. Most people you run… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
... 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;… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm,… — Leigh Mitchell Hodges Copy Share Image
I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image