Top 100 A Ghost Quotes
#1. A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#2. I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.
Ilsa J. Bick
#3. Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost.
Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.
Stephen Colbert
#4. Memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow
John Green
#5. You are a ghost. Filled with stardust, wearing the bones as the shield and the skin as the cape. Fighting every day and opening up for the new wounds in the hustle of hiding the old scars.
Akshay Vasu
#6. I won't explain why. If you're interesting, you'll find out who I am. One clue, I'm a ghost.
Eka Prasetyani
#7. Or maybe a ghost was only a thing that endures, like the furnishings of this room, like the chairs or table; a little worse for wear, but still here because someone cherished it, or because it was made of such hardy stuff that time couldn't wear it down fast enough.
Ari Berk
#8. I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.
Eric Bana
#9. You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You're a ghost with a beating heart. Soon you'll cross the border and be with me. I'm so stoked. I miss you wicked.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#10. Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from God that cannot be reduced to optimism, which is only human. God does not mislead hope; God cannot deny himself. God is all promise.
Pope Francis
#11. You let me think I was being stalked by a ghost, you fuck nuts!
Abigail Roux
#12. What's a self-respecting amusement park without a ghost?
Stephen King
#13. She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.
Stuart Jaffe
#14. God, this is weird."
"Oh, I'm sorry - do you have a ghost talking to you about his intentions with your granddaughter?
Heather Davis
#15. Go talk to her," Boo said.
"About what?"
"Anything."
"You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'"
"I do that," she replied.
"I love it when you get it wrong," Callum said.
"Once. It happened once."
"It happened twice," Stephen said, looking over.
Maureen Johnson
#16. I was a ghost on a ghost ship in a ghost island
Maria Semple
#18. Your spirit is sweet
So pull off your sheet
And give me a ghost of a smile
Show me your teeth
'Cause you're teddy beneath
So just grin and bear it a while.
Owl City
#19. That's the crux of almost every fight, the moment when the strength drains out of you and the adrenaline pumps so hard that it becomes a burden and surrender appears like a ghost at ringside.
Stieg Larsson
#20. When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.
Michael Koryta
#21. The magna mater!" a ghost wailed in despair. "The big mother!
Rick Riordan
#22. Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
Richard Brautigan
#23. Footnote: In 1998, a woman in Saline, Michigan received a patent for a Decorative Penile Wrap ... The patent included three pages of drawings, including a penis wearing a ghost outfit, another in the robes of the Grim Reaper, and one dressed up to look like a snowman.
Mary Roach
#24. But it was the love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without my appetite to eat it. No hunger. No fullness.
Amy Tan
#25. I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.
Tony Earley
#26. Why does everyone look like they've just seen a ghost?" "Our
Julie Ann Walker
#28. Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#29. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk.
Neil Gaiman
#30. Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
Dan Aykroyd
#31. The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby
#32. A ghost of a smile flickered across her lips- Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#33. He looks like a ghost, haunted by a life suddenly torn away, and I don't know how to comfort him.
Victoria Aveyard
#34. By a merging and interplay of identities between himself and his beautiful room, he might be preparing a ghost for the future; it had not occurred to him that there might have been a similar merging and coalescence in the past. Oliver Onions The Beckoning Fair One
Adam Nevill
#35. He'd have to tell the Mage what he saw.
I've finally seen the Humdrum, sir.
I know what we're fighting
me.
'What's left of you.' the monster had
said.
What is left of me? Simon wondered.
A ghost? A hole? An echo?
An angry little boy with nervous
hands?
Rainbow Rowell
#36. The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.
Conrad Aiken
#37. I've never made love to a ghost but I have made love to men who are a few years away from becoming a ghost.
Chelsea Handler
#39. What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can't be real.
Megan Hart
#40. I usually become a ghost to
those who no longer deserve
my time. I've never seen a point
in explaining my absence to
someone who failed to
appreciate my presence. You
don't owe any explanations to
those who hurt you.
R H Sin
#41. I now had to walk everywhere rather than just deciding to go places. I admit I was disappointed about that part, since being a ghost had made me quite lazy. Stupid living people with their walking and stepping!
Dennis Liggio
#42. I just inherited a ghost dog. Duke was in the back seat, his head hanging out the window.
Deanna Chase
#43. Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh.
Arthur Rimbaud
#44. I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife.
Marlon Wayans
#45. Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.
Chris Bohjalian
#46. In the 1970s and early '80s, Shanghai was quiet, cautious, a ghost of a once-great city - and yet physically, little was changed from its glittering heyday. When visiting, I enjoyed reading books on local history and used my time off to scope out the former haunts of gangsters and jazzmen.
Nicole Mones
#47. I heard your guts had been blasted out," he said to Sebastian. "But since you don't look to be a ghost, I suppose the story was false."
"Actually, it's true," Sebastian replied, his gaze chilling. "But the devil wouldn't have me.
Lisa Kleypas
#48. All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
Aberjhani
#49. There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.
Jennifer Donnelly
#50. But in after years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walked behind him on the same ruinous path down into the Void.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#51. His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost story.
(introduction to "Sir Edmund Orme" by Henry James)
Herbert A. Wise
#52. Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner ... ?
Francesca Woodman
#53. Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
Adam Duritz
#54. There is no "I" for a person, for a beehive, for a corporation, for an animal, for a nation, for any living thing. The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost, an ephemeral shroud.
Kevin Kelly
#55. Everyone who is alive has a ghost inside them, don't they?
Kelly Link
#56. An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
E. Stanley Jones
#57. an Underground train roared and rattled, driving a ghost-wind along the platform, which scattered a copy of the tabloid Sun into its component pages, four-colour breasts and black and white invective scurrying
Neil Gaiman
#58. Maybe I could be friends with a ghost. I wouldn't be able to kill him.
Kim Harrison
#59. Tate snorted. "Do I look like a pussy to you?"
"No," Bones replied with a ghost of a smile. "You look like the same stubborn, reckless, devoted sod I've almost killed a hundred times over, which is why you're perfect for the job.
Jeaniene Frost
#60. What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls!
Kerstin Gier
#61. What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.
Jeanette Winterson
#62. It was then she realized that she wasn't a ghost, or a god. She was a monster.
V.E Schwab
#63. Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.
Jeff Dunham
#64. If any man has a ghost
Bourne has a ghost
a tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak
hopping along the grimy old brick and brownstone streets still left in downtown New York,
crying out in a shrill soundless giggle:
War is the health of the State.
John Dos Passos
#65. Guthrie handed him the mug, a wee pout pulling his pale face out of shape. With his semi-skimmed skin, faint ginger hair, and blond eyebrows he looked like a ghost that had been at the pies. "Milk, two sugars.
Stuart MacBride
#66. So you know you're a ghost?"
I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. "Can you think of another explanation?
Christina Dodd
#68. You're a ghost! Eddie cried. You're empty and you have nothing inside you.
Daniel Handler
#69. Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghost-woman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will.
James Joyce
#70. You are a ghost, Andi," she says. "Almost gone."
I look at her. I want to say something but I can't get the words out.
She squeezes my hands. "Come back to us," she says. And she's gone.
Jennifer Donnelly
#71. The door was open; I stepped in. A ghost town with a ghost theater, yet the former grandness still evident, the gold wallpaper peeling, the velvet seats in attendant rows, though ripped and ruined. Why did I cry? Not because it was a wreck, but because I felt the history.
Dana Spiotta
#72. I buy Coppertone Water Babies in abundance at the airport, SPF 60 or 70. I like being pale; I like looking like a creature from the dead world. I like looking like a ghost.
Jennifer Stone
#73. If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.
Lloyd C. Douglas
#74. To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
Chuck Palahniuk
#75. We both know there's a ways to go. I'm going to trust you to help me get there."She swallowed, took a deep breath and gave him a ghost of a smile. "But when I do, I'm going to learn to take care of you right back, Captain Winston. So you'd better watch out.
Joey W. Hill
#76. Faerie music is the wind", he says, "and their movement is the play of shadow cast by moonlight, or starlight, or no light at all. Faerie lives like a ghost beside us, but only the city remembers. But then the city never forgets anything.
Charles De Lint
#77. He paused as if waiting for her to say something, but all she could do was stare at him and wonder why he couldn't see that she was a ghost and not really there at all.
Karen White
#79. I was in a strip club trying to help a ghost get laid which was challenging, but not impossible.
A.J. Locke
#80. Strange though it may seem, people rarely show such enthusiasm as when they are seeking the proof of a ghost story - the soul gathers all this sort of thing to its hungry bosom.
Halldor Laxness
#81. I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.
Conor Oberst
#82. Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.
Rebecca McKinsey
#83. You kissed me to prove a point?" A ghost of a smile appeared. "Felt like it was the quickest way to prove the point.
J. Lynn
#84. I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.
Maggie Cheung
#85. Maybe that's what marriage does, Helen thought. One day you're holding your breath lest a ghost fly up your nose and the next your coming home as married as your own mother.
Sonja Yoerg
#86. An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
#87. For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.
William Carlos Williams
#88. If we meet in person, then you can't call me Ghost anymore. I won't be a ghost. I'll be real.
Jessica Love
#89. Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.
Claire Coffee
#90. I've been writing more songs in my head," he said, "about being a ghost and a shade." His face turned smooth and solemn. "How I'd die all over again just to touch you.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#91. Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Salman Rushdie
#92. My voice, when it emerged, cracked a little. I'm not in love with a ghost.
Jojo Moyes
#93. It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story.
("Introduction" to TOLD AFTER SUPPER)
Jerome K. Jerome
#94. A picture does not lie. It has the quality of an image taken by a ghost hunter, revealing floaters and spirits that the participants had been unable to see.
Lena Dunham
#95. Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse.
Winston Graham
#96. I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother's house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic.
Jennifer McMahon
#97. If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?
Paul Darrow
#98. He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely. He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost, a thing that can haunt a man's days and nights.
Cathie Pelletier
#99. What I do know is that I can't hurt a ghost. I wish I could fall in love with Ann Stuart. I wish I could wed her and bed her and have children with her. I wish I could fill that huge house with little spirit children who would live forever and never die.
Jude Deveraux
#100. As to who among us is a ghost and who not I have nothing to say: it is a question we can only stare at in silence, like a bird before a snake, hoping it will not swallow us.
J.M. Coetzee
