Ghost Quotes

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. (Brian Aldiss)
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. View quote
Bill Cosby
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! View quote
Thomas Ken
Every love story is a ghost story. View quote
David Foster Wallace
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. View quote
H. L. Mencken
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!" View quote
M. R. James
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us. View quote
Joseph Addison
A ghost, Larry, is someone who hasn't made it -- in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their -- let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you. View quote
Sylvia Browne
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. View quote
Jean Cocteau
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself. (Robert Stack)
Only baptize them if you truly believe these people are ready, taking a little more time if necessary so the Holy Ghost can strengthen them a little more. View quote
Richard G. Scott
Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Well the highway is alive tonight, But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes. I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me. View quote
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood. View quote
Michael Marshall Smith
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born. View quote
John Donne
What beck'ning ghost, along the moon-light shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? View quote
Alexander Pope
The Hyla breed That shouted in the mist a month ago, Like ghost of sleighbells in a ghost of snow. View quote
Robert Frost
The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between. (Robert Blair)
Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science...I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards. View quote
James Lovelock
I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin. View quote
John Wesley
Have you guys ever ghost hunted in Hawaii? No? Well, I have this fat friend... I shouldn't say fat, that might offend him, but he's Samoan and claims to have seen ghosts. View quote
Phil Brooks
What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain. View quote
Jeanette Winterson