Best 496 quotes in «ghost quotes» category

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not particularly real in life, but they're real on the screen. It's the communal aspect of movie-watching.

I already accepted that I relate to nothing. The more I gain, the more lonely it is I know I'm like a ghost.

I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

I build my stories character-first, and so whether it's a monster or a ghost or a serial killer, the fear of something dark interrupting life has just always been something that matters to me as a storyteller, or what I keep finding myself drawn back to.

I believe in spirits, not ghosts.

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there’s some kind of ghost-necro porn industry down there. ~Jaime Vegas

I did Call of Duty Modern Warfare as Gaz, then I did Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.

I didn't know there were so many ghosts in [New] York.

I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity is. I feel most comfortable writing about monsters. It's possible that I feel like a monster myself. Or maybe it's because we all have a monster inside of us, a vampire, a ghost, a witch or a werewolf. You do it because it works and it feels really right and authentic.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

I don't necessarily not believe in ghosts, but I've never seen a ghost. A ghost has never jumped out and been like, 'Hey, how's it going?

I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world — Death is only an incident in Life.

I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over" - Suze Simon in the Mediator

If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

If the dead can't rest in peace, how on Earth can the living?

I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit around the campfire and listen to his ghost stories. It's been very much a part of my makeup.

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.

If your cat's speaking Latin, you might have a problem.

I have never seen a ghost, no. Or I've buried it deep in my subconscious.

I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed - but there is still the building. I was looking for something between an experiment and an extended ritual. I asked 15 actors to be in this museum and take the position of the museum's personnel. I put this small group under certain conditions and influences, interpreted by another group of actors or by real professional performers, like a magician, a psychic, a model, a hypnotist, a singer, a psycho-dramaturge.

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

I had originally done a production called The Resistance. It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.

I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

I like everything that has to do with ghosts. If I see it, I'm all over it. We all have our thing.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out.

I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission.

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I’ve seen a few.

I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past, and stories attached to them, and that's really New York and L.A. Any place where there's ghosts are inspiring.

I'm more of a science head, so I was like, how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?

I'm not much of a horror fan. When it comes to ghost stuff and demon stuff, I can't watch that.

I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.

I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.

In a way I think why the Ghost story is very relatable to a large audience is that it's kind of a coming of age story and it's a realisation of 'I am what I am - what has happened to me, good or bad, that is the sum of who I am now'.

In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.