Top 47 Death Ghosts Quotes
#1. Men's bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts. In death, they transcend he circumstances of this place that I love and hate all at once and become supernatural.
Jesmyn Ward
#2. It wasn't hard to follow the scent of blood to the living room where the fae had been killed. It had been a violent death, perfect for creating ghosts.
Patricia Briggs
#3. Weave the circle, tightly sewn,
Let nothing evil or unknown
Enter within. Stay without
On pain of death, we cast you out.
Yasmine Galenorn
#4. Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
Jim Carroll
#5. In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.
Steven Pinker
#6. That night there was more than one killer in the forest, the next day a lot more ghosts.
The Book of Brin
Michael J. Sullivan
#7. From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed to him a town the centuries had so drenched in blood and violence that, when daylight went out, the ghosts of its dead were its only population.
Ian Fleming
#8. We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
Liam Callanan
#9. 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
#10. Women know when men don't desire them: ghosts and witches, deities and demons, angels of death - even virgins, even ordinary women. They always know; women can tell when you have stopped desiring them.
John Irving
#11. Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.
T.A. Webb
#12. I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind.
Peter S. Beagle
#13. Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in on me. Despite all I had learned and seen, I wished to God someone would choke her to death so I could get ahold of her and choke her some more.
Christopher Pike
#14. Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.
Dean Koontz
#15. 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
#16. The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
Ellen Hopkins
#17. She knew, with all her heart that running away from the country's top relationship coach was as good as saying, 'there's no hope for me, ever'!
Diane Hall
#18. Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.
Slade Combs
#19. 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
#20. Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.
Lauren Oliver
#21. I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.
Leanna Renee Hieber
#22. I let ya in - into my life ... my death ... my heart." He reached up like he was going to touch my face. "And now I don't know how to get ya out.
Janae Mitchell
#23. In the ghost house in the last days of the accident season, we were never going to die.
Moira Fowley-Doyle
#24. There are humans, and there are ghosts. Vampires are just in a different state of transition. Not part of the human world and not part of the spirit world. We are just caught somewhere in between life and the real death." - Quinn Forrester-Song of the Vampire
K.M. McFarland
#26. The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.
Catherynne M Valente
#27. So how exactly was I supposed to wrap my head around the whole thing? I wasn't entirely sure I could trust this guy. I mean, this was it? Really? My life ends and some creep in a grungy leather jacket takes me away? No, I couldn't accept that. -Jen
Nessie Strange
#28. Believe that you are someone worth saving.
Slade Combs
#29. 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
#31. The flame of the inn is dim tonight,
Too many vacant chairs.
The sun has lost too much of its light,
Too many songs have taken flight,
Too many ghosts on the stairs.
Charon, here's to you as man against man,
I wish I could pick 'em the way you can!
Grantland Rice
#32. Maybe pulling her emotions out and inserting in his logic would change this morbid course. But damn if he'd joke about it like she did.
Kelly Moran
#33. Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.
Victoria Schwab
#34. Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.
Henry MacKenzie
#35. The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.
Slade Combs
#36. Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.
Kelly Moran
#37. There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.
Slade Combs
#38. I had already passed beyond the point of death and was now keeping company with ghosts who had joyfully come to claim me as one of their own.
Paul Sayer
#39. Hello dead girl," Isola said, ever the hostess.
"Hello heartbeat girl," said the uninvited guest. "It's like a drum, it's so fucking loud. Turn it down, will you?
Fairytales For Wilde Girls
#40. The alluring stars in an apparently endless sky had, after all, been a disguise for the cloud of spirits. Ghosts perhaps could lie in death as well as creatures could lie in life.
Gregory Maguire
#41. Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death - We die whene'er we think of it!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#43. Whose are all these ghosts?" she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine.
"Oh," said Geraldine, "I think they might be mine ... ?
Diane Hall
#45. This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don't mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.
J.D. Salinger
#46. If this is what death was like it's no wonder people had such a horror of the idea of ghosts.
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#47. It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already.
That's right
you heard me: dead again already.
I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?
Jim Butcher