Best 496 quotes in «ghost quotes» category

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

Hazel frowned. "Why that one?" "You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked. "Ghost?" Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.

"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.

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.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

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.

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

He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.

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 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 believe in spirits, not ghosts.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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