Ghosts Quotes

Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

~ Rachel Caine

No ghosts need

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together.

~ Johnny Cash

Sometimes, the only way to exorcise old ghosts is to pack your bags and move in with them.

~ Yasmine Galenorn

One warm morning in July, a ghost came to our breakfast table.

~ Holly Thompson

Or a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And sometimes a ghost is a shared thing; sometimes the entire population of a city or country will just happen to look in the mirror at the same time, and from then on there was a city in the sky, as all cities are if we consider that the sky reaches to the ground, and this city, too, thought it was alive, and the candles walked off by themselves.

~ Cole Swensen

...most words for ghost are pieces of mica that carefully layeredwill make a window out of fire. It's cold and the faces at the windowdo what faces usually do they open onto a genetic historythat looks up suddenly and it's the eyes everyone says you can't say that's not alive

~ Cole Swensen

What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

You don't get the good shots sitting on your ass in the bad weather- Mark Johnson

~ Alan Place

If the creek predates the city deep in time, then is it right to identify the creek solely with the city? The city has forgotten the creek, as it's forgotten those who walk its side, but the creek didn't need to be known all that long time before the city ever was. Maybe now Hogan's Creek is too steeped in history to claim an independence grounded in prehistory, because the city has too deeply poisoned it for far too long. Then again, there was all that time the creek flowed and had no name. Without a name you belong solely to yourself.

~ Tim Gilmore

A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart. Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt

~ Ashley Jeffery

The fact that you and I are acquaintances only interested and amused the ghosts further. Gossip bunch, really.

~ August Westman

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

~ Elizabeth Wein

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways... Too often, people make the mistake of trying to use their art to capture a ghost, but only end up spreading their haunting to countless other people.

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

I bolted upright in my bed, gasping for air and still feeling his touch on my hand. I could feel him watching me. I could feel him waiting for me.

~ Dana Michelle Burnett

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!

~ Sarah Waters

You rile this gal and she'll go wildcat on your ass. Patti (Pat) Canella- Dockland murders/Ghosts of your past.

~ Alan Place

Do you like a good ghost story?”-Jonah

~ Dana Michelle Burnett

The rancid odor mixed with the dust, death, and confusion as they awaited those who could clean up the mess and make death official.

~ G.g. Collins

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

~ Adam Duritz

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

~ Erica Jong

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

~ Brian Aldiss

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

~ Max Stirner

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

~ Florence Welch