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The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. — Edward Young

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts. — Michael Ondaatje

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us. — Liam Callanan

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. — Robert Breault

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was. — William Stanley Jevons

We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today
which is like the dreams of ghosts! — Robert E. Howard

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
David Bowie — David Bowie

We had found a pocket of quiet, where all the ghosts in our minds had gone to sleep, and we were the only two people awake. — Leylah Attar

Buried and burned. Never find them. Never. Buried and buried. — Hunter Shea

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts? — Chris Hardwick

Enough regret can crush any man, living or dead. — Marlo Berliner

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said. — Joan Lowery Nixon

No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. They're the real ghosts. — Stephen King

All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts. — Ivan Chtcheglov

The only way to shake your ghosts was to find them ... — Adam Johnson

If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? — Gertrude Atherton

This world is so thick with ghosts it's a wonder anyone can breathe. — Leah Raeder

Sweetheart, my father and I have put more ghosts in the ground than you can count. — Kendare Blake

Then I swept my hand across the length of the kitchen windows, sending salt spraying all over the kitchen floor.
It's time to let the ghosts in. — Kami Garcia

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us. — Aimee Bender

I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis. — Kathy Bryson

It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen. — Sharon Sant

I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too. — Melissa Jennings

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people. — Emilie Autumn

He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts. — John Steinbeck

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? — Paul Feig

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world. — Joe Hill

It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory. — Anne Rice

Sure, we thought the acres
That we tilled were sacred,
But how could we have known
That wheat can haunt like ghosts — Sherman Alexie

There ain't no haints in Detroit. — Angela Flournoy

Only times and places, only names and ghosts. — Aldous Huxley

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. — Cynthia Ozick

More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else. — Jonathan Stroud

This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous. — Kelly Moran

Two clocks, two ghosts, one square acre of hidden mirror. — David Foster Wallace

At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn't exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale. — Kelly Moran

Everyone always thinks of ghosts as being invisible or like air but they take up so much space in a room, you've no idea. — Jami Attenberg

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera ... It's a frightening thing ... Cameras make ghosts out of people. — Bob Dylan

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. — Alberto Manguel

It was one thing to talk about ghosts, quite another to have them messing around with things in the physical world. — Hunter Shea

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation ... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. — George Matthew Adams

Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future. — Sean Best

I knew I would lose my job when I accidentally set fire to my best friend's house. — Kathy Bryson

When ghosts rose, they drew energy from their surroundings, depriving the air around them of heat. — Cassandra Clare

A writer's journey may be tough, but never give up and enjoy every moment. — Rhonda Hughe St. John

Because every story is a ghost story, even mine. — Samantha Hunt

Despair and die.

The ghosts — William Shakespeare

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind. — Jim Morrison

The fires of night
through distance dance
ghosts who still know how to sing — Tamara Rendell

Like the rooftop dogs, they were lost souls - they were running wild, or they drifted around town like ghosts. — John Irving

It seems I can go from elated, embarrassed, angry, and back to embarrassed in four comments flat. — Brandy Nacole

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. — Robert A. Heinlein

Ghosts, I was thinking, memories - I wasn't sure there was a difference. — Ben Aaronovitch

I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down. — Bella James

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

These voices from the past had arisen like ghosts demanding to be heard. — Julie Berry

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered. — Jill Johnston

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. — J.K. Rowling

Ghosts are said to move in the corners of human sight. — Alice Hoffman

This is what keeps ghosts locked to the earth, that sweet burning need for something they loved and gave up too soon. — Cathie Pelletier

We seek to stay present, even as the ghosts attempt to draw us away. — Patti Smith

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

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts. — Nick Tosches

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be. — Slade Combs

You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry? — Kathy Bryson

Occasionally a few bubbles would eructate to the surface like the ghosts of beans on bath night. — Terry Pratchett

I like to say I believe in ghosts so I don't get haunted by one. — Ella Henderson

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff. — Meaghan Rath

Can you lay your hand on your hearts and tell me I'm really alive? Are you sure I wasn't drowned and we're not all ghosts together? — C.S. Lewis

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts. — China Mieville

I think ... she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts. — Jodi Picoult

But even in sleep, her ghosts all hunt her down, wanting her to look at them, remember them. — Katherena Vermette

After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks ... — Walter De La Mare

Whose are all these ghosts?" she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine.
"Oh," said Geraldine, "I think they might be mine ... ? — Diane Hall

I've never really been into ghosts or spirits, and I've only had a couple of those kind of experiences. — Rhys Darby

Terror made me cruel . . . — Emily Bronte

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight. — Patricia Briggs

Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost. — James Joyce

Behind gods, ghosts, and people squats the state, which asserts total access to both public and private space: the — Alan Moore

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof. — Ariana Franklin

We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts. — Stephen King

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees. — Ged Thompson

With magic almost anything was possible; all objects had energy, and energy could be manipulated. — Stacia Kane

I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends. — Michael Dumontier

He thinks you were trapped in a tree in the 1920s. How is that not crazy? — Kathy Bryson

Laurel returned to CJ's bedroom. "Do you want me to remove your clothes?"
"Hell, yeah," he said, and the growly expression immediately vanished. — Terry Spear

I will tell him that I've always thought he was a monster. And that I want to be his bride — Yangzee Choo

Mercer looked around. There was no way anyone could hear. But the walls could, and the earth, and the ghosts of horses, and the state of Georgia. — Garth Risk Hallberg

His own mortality held only an intellectual fascination for him, a dry luster; and, having no religion, he did not believe in ghosts. — Eleanor Catton

I' is Absolute; it has been possessed by the ghosts of 'my'! — Dada Bhagwan

He says you kill ghosts for a living. Like you're a ghostbuster or something." "I'm not a ghostbuster. — Kendare Blake

When hope leaves us, dark ghosts come to visit our minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Calm down. Ghosts don't ring the doorbell. — Kelly Moran

On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb. — Eleanor Farjeon

I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts ... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words. — Terry Tempest Williams

The only way ghosts can hurt you is through your own fear — Cornelia Funke

It was a mansion of ghosts and monsters, with ghouls in the shadows and demons scuttling behind the wainscotting. — Alastair Reynolds

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost. — Daphne Du Maurier