Ghosts Quotes

This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I ...

Oh, very good,' interrupted Snape, his lip curling. 'Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of...

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest mom...

Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sash...

He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate...

After breakfast the host takes the young man into a corner, and explains to him that what he saw was...

There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmospher...

It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again alread...

The dead pull the living down.

The dead pull the living down.

She needs you, Dad," Julia says. "She has unfinished business in this world.""What is the matter wit...

When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for th...

Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the...

Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, ...

The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves ...

This is what the Problem means,” he went on. “This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones take...

Lockwood didn’t speak until everything was quiet again. “I know you’re worrying about me, Luce,” he ...

His rapier was at his belt, glittering as he swung. He reached down, ripped the sword clear. I jumpe...

There was a profound silence, abruptly broken by an enormously loud rumble from George's stomach. Pl...

When you go out hunting wicked spirits, it's the simple things that matter most. The silvered point ...

Lockwood gave a sudden exclamation; when I looked at him, his eyes were shining. 'On second thoughts...

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyon...

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyon...

Whiteness of moonlight builds a house that is not there

We are the dead. We are the keepers of the stories. We hold the history of blood and promises. We ar...

For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues m...

Every city is a ghost.New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, ea...

The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as g...

Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog".

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside n...

He could not shake the feeling - reportedly common among ghosts - that it was not he but those he ha...

Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-de...

Do not fear the ghosts in this house; theyare the least of your worries.Personally I find the noises...

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now mo...

But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He...

We are all ghosts," Morris Klapper said at last. "We are conceived in a moment of death and born out...

She came very close, and looking into my eyes, she said, “My Jenny,” and then she bent her head and ...

I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did d...

I have emotionsthat are like newspapers thatread themselves.I go for days at a timetrapped in the wa...

Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world...

There are our ghosts,' Smithers said.It was a word he liked to use, said Brewster. Like most of us B...

I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time....

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life....

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time ...

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No...

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time ...

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No...

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time ...

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No...

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time ...

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No...

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never...

I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her hea...

…but I guess you can never wash anything completely away, not from this dark glass of a world, and n...

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them ...

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of ...

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncann...

But soon the poltergeist ran out of ideas in connection with Aunt Maud and became, as it were, more ...

I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing ta...

I am consoled only to see that I was not mistaken: Chicago is just as I remembered it. I was here tw...

It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the fi...

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mock...

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead...

What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delu...

Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hang...

Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

No ghosts need

Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and do...

I fell asleep. But later that night I woke up. There was moonlight coming through the window, and sh...

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral ...

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparit...

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importa...

The dead have highways." Clive Barker

When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation....

But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the...

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and so...

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing...

Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled...

you want to knowwhether i believe in ghostsof course i do not believe in themif you had knownas many...

With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.

He specialized in a particular kind of friendship with that eight-limbed, inscrutable, treacherous c...

One need not be a chamber to be haunted,One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMa...

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must su...

If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you less'n he wants to lose it!

The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little a...