Quotes About Ghosts From The Past

#1. Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future.

Sean Best

#2. The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always dealing with ghosts from the past and the looming dark presence of the Vatican.

Chiara Barzini

#3. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Ghosts and more ghosts. Ghosts trying to find their place among the living.

Robert M. Pirsig

#4. You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you've found life. I'm no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are 'yours' and which are 'mine.' It's past sorting out.

Thomas Pynchon

#5. The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past.

Erik Tomblin

#6. If you don't believe in ghosts, why you wake up from nightmares screaming out the names of your dead friends?

Peter Fryer

#7. The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.

Alexandra Adornetto

#8. Nico di Angelo has warned them: the House of Hades would stir their worst memories, make them see things and hear things from the past Their ghosts would become restless.

Rick Riordan

#9. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#10. ...Nyla was right in predicting that, for me, life would go on into old age and my promise has been kept too, for every now and then over the years, the ghosts have slipped out from the past and I have kept brief company with my friends of long ago.

Edward Beauclerk Maurice

#11. These voices from the past had arisen like ghosts demanding to be heard.

Julie Berry

#12. The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

Francois Fenelon

#13. In Victorian London they used to burn phosphorus at seances in an attempt to see ghosts, and I suspect that the pop-music equivalent is our obsession with B-sides and alternate versions and unreleased material.

Nick Hornby

#14. I could only see shades of men and woman moving outside the fiery circle, almost as ghosts who were banished to a darker world.

Cherry Gregory

#15. We all carry many selves, but in the end, these are just phantoms of possibility, nothing more than ghosts of broken destinies.

A. Lee Martinez

#16. Did you ever feel a creeping,
That awoke you from your sleeping,
That made your pulses flutter and bristled all your hair;
While a horrid stealthy crawling
Prevented you from calling,
And something seemed to tell you that a ghost was coming there?

Amelia B. Edwards

#17. Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

Zen Cho

#18. ...the world is full of ghosts .... And the longer you live, the more haunted you become.... the ghosts are there to remind us that we still live, that we still have hearts that beat, flesh that burns, lungs that gasp for air.... Never forget that ..... or those deaths have no meaning.

James Rollins

#19. I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.

Ruskin Bond

#20. She would've made an excellent pirate.

Erica Ridley

#21. One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.

Faraaz Kazi

#22. When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson