Abandonment Quote by Ellen Hopkins

“Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm.”

— Rebecca Maizel

The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams…

— Conrad Aiken

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?

— Anonymous

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

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

— Henry Miller

“Ghosts will forever put in appearances, as they should. Our illusions have muscle and meaning. The past returns at midnight, in the heart of…

— Tom Piccirilli

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

— Tabitha King

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

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

— Kabir

“Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking…

— Max Porter

The wind is a natural way to loosen and release dead leaves and branches, just as emotional and life-situation storms are opportunities for humans…

— Doreen Virtue

Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich