Ghosts Quotes

Ghosts,” Doktor Messerli continued, “aren’t always the spirits of the human dead bound to the earth. A ghost can be the residual feeling that follows an act you have accomplished but feel bad about. Or the act itself. Something you’ve been or done that you cannot escape.

~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. That's when they can hear us true.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

She came very close, and looking into my eyes, she said, “My Jenny,” and then she bent her head and kissed me—here, on the left-hand corner of my mouth. And nobody knows better than I that I couldn’t have felt anything, because Tamsin was a ghost—but nobody but me knows what I felt. And I’ll always know.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Back in the 1800's, Ormsby Island was one of South Carolina's crown jewels. The island was owned by Maxwell Ormsby, a very wealthy man who liked to entertain everyone from heads of state to artists and authors and anyone who knew how to make money in business. An invitation to the island was a declaration that you were someone on the move. Once a year, Ormsby opened the island up to the public and hosted a huge fair. It was the social event of the year in these parts. My family still talks about the days when my great grandmother would take the family out to enjoy the festivities. It must have been some party.

~ Hunter Shea

There was a profound silence, abruptly broken by an enormously loud rumble from George's stomach. Plaster didn't actually fall from the ceiling, but it was close.

~ Jonathan Stroud

Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them.

~ Simon R. Green

The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Tom Farrell had always wished Hell on his boss. On New Years Eve... Hell sent someone.-Along For The Ride-

~ Thomas Amo

I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.

~ Ben Okri

...most ghosts are a rag and a bone and a hank of hair at best--a memory fragment stuck on continual loop, just dust and PKE and water-vapour with no real there there. Leftover fragments of psychic energy deluded into believing in their own personality; an echo cobbled together from memory and pain, with no self-awareness as such 'cept what we give them. Survival instinct, with no survival.

~ Gemma Files

Someday, I’ll gain telepathic powers like every other regular movie ghost and I will go all Freddie Krueger on his bony, little, rat arse!”I rolled my eyes, but kept marching down the street.“Then I’d have to go all Ghostbusters on yours.”, I tried to keep my voice low to keep from drawing attention to myself.“No, you wouldn’t. You love my arse, darling!”, he walked backwards few feet in front of me.His big smile was enough to make me grin and roll my eyes again at him.

~ Tia Artemis

Walt also had a humorous sign posted outside the mansion, recruiting ghosts who wanted to enjoy 'active retirement' in the country club atmosphere' of this 'fashionable address'. Interested ghosts were to write to the 'Ghost Relations Dept. Disneyland,' and were told,'Do not apply in person.

~ Leslie Le Mon

His ghost comes back to be remembered. If he can’t be in this life, he procures a way to stay in orbit, and in that way, is never forgotten.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The ego of a god, the wit of a goldfish.

~ Shah Wharton

She always imagined their voices entangled somewhere in the wires when they spoke, caught up in a grid she didn't fully understand, passing back and forth. Once the calls were disconnected, she imagined the echoes of old conversations would be trapped there, floating back and forth with no exit, like ghosts.

~ Lauren Oliver

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

~ Mark Twain

He specialized in a particular kind of friendship with that eight-limbed, inscrutable, treacherous creature, the happily married coupe, adapting himself closely and lightly to the composite personality.A peevish dead woman...it's absurd...ho much less humiliating for them both it would have been if she had taken a lover.

~ Bowen Elizabeth

He specialized in a particular kind of friendship with that eight-limbed, inscrutable, treacherous creature, the happily married coupe, adapting himself closely and lightly to the composite personality.A peevish dead woman...it's absurd...how much less humiliating for them both it would have been if she had taken a lover.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

In addition to unfinished business, some ghosts haunt so that they will be remembered.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Each night at bedtime, I'd close the bedroom door, climb into bed, and settle in under the covers. Within a minute, the door handle would turn and the door slowly open about a foot. Then a young boy's screams of Daddy would follow from the second bedroom - the little boy's room.

~ Paul Stefaniak

I love ghosts, I prefer ghosts to some people.

~ Cher

Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.

~ Lesley Howarth

Twas now the very witching time of night,When churchyards groan, and graves give up their dead,And many a mischievous, enfranchised spriteHad long since burst his bonds of stone or lead,And hurried off, with schoolboy-like delight,To play his pranks near some poor wretch's bed,Sleeping, perhaps serenely as a porpoise,Nor dreaming of this fiendish Habeas Corpus.

~ Thomas Ingoldsby

Charleston is an extraordinary place. There is a deep connection between the residents and nearly three hundred and fifty years of history, and those ties between daily life and the distant past are strengthened by the occasional glimpse beyond the veil.

~ James Caskey

At dusk in the Temple Gardens the barrier between past and present turned fluid and ghosts walked. Here and there if Buckler looked closely he caught a glimpse of knights filing toward the ancient round Church, heads bowed in penitence…Buckler didn’t mind the spirits. In fact, he preferred their company to that of the general run of human. For the ghosts reminded him that man’s petty cares, so all consuming in life, would one day become nothing more than fit matter for an amusing story.

~ S.k. Rizzolo

They're ghosts, surely, and Rabbit absolutely believes in them. There are things in the world, strange machinations of physics and chemistry,queer intersections of biology and theology, that Rabbit hasn't the slightest interest in assuming he'll ever understand or be able to solve. They're simply there to be believed in, and Rabbit is a born believer. He wants to believe. He has always thought of life as pregnant with possibility-- a freak twister or wardrobe the only thing separating him from another world-- so ghosts, spirits, aliens and supreme beings coexist within Rabbit with ease. There's a kind of beauty in accepting the possibility, if not the plausibility, of everything imaginable.

~ Kate Racculia

There’s no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.

~ Kathy Bryson

You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn’t worry?

~ Kathy Bryson

I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.

~ Kathy Bryson

I didn’t know the grim reaper looked like Sid Vicious. – Jen

~ Nessie Strange

This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!

~ Kathy Bryson

I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.

~ Pete Townshend

Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.

~ Kathy Bryson

I knew I would lose my job when I accidentally set fire to my best friend’s house.

~ Kathy Bryson

This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins.

~ Kathy Bryson

It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

~ Arlene Stafford-Wilson

Turns out there’s a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites.

~ Kathy Bryson

You pretty much have to take the job since you hit him with the car.

~ Kathy Bryson

Maybe you’re worried that I won’t seduce you?

~ Kathy Bryson

Elvis is the soul of discretion.

~ Kathy Bryson