Ghost Quotes - Page 19

• Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

  Kenneth Anger

  Home, Hollywood, Affair

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• It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

  Italo Calvino

  Voice, Within You, Acquire

  Italo Calvino (2012). “Under the Jaguar Sun”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Brother, Fate

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• Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Spirit, Belief

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.71, Rebel Press

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• Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

  Andre Malraux

  Heart, Artist, Men

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

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Believe, Influence, Macabre

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• Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

  Vladimir Makarov

  Revenge, Men, Lasts

  "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2". Video Game, www.imdb.com. November 10, 2009.

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• This divine privilege of raising our children is a much greater responsibility than we can do alone, without the Lord's help. He knows exactly what our children need to know, what they need to do, and what they need to be to come back into His presence. He gives mothers and fathers specific instruction and guidance through the scriptures, His prophets, and the Holy Ghost.

  Cheryl A. Esplin

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Intellectual, Holy, Faculty

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

  Daul Kim

  Lonely, Gains, Accepted

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• While serving others, we are most likely to plead for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. Success in the Lord’s service always produces miracles beyond our own powers.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Miracle, Companionship, Serving Others

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• Lovin this Ghost Ghirls! It was great to get to play a madame not just a boring prostitute.

  Natasha Leggero

  Play, Boring

  FaceBook post by Natasha Leggero from Sep 10, 2013

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• A ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not aware usually of his true condition. We are all spirits encased in a physical body. At the time of passing, our spirit body continues into the next dimension. A ghost, on the other hand, due to trauma, is stuck in our physical world and needs to be released to go on.

  Hans Holzer

  Hands, Goes On, World

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• Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

  Beth Richardson Gutcheon

  Believe, Wells, Feels

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• Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.

  Joseph Addison

  Philosophy, Circles, Church

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1801). “The Spectator”, p.183

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• Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Thinking, Sorrow

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• 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

  Father, Cities, Never Settle

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• Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Errors, Self, Mind

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• ...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.

  George Henry Boker

  Lovers, Spots, Walking

  George Henry Boker (1857). “Plays and poems”, p.462

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• Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Writing

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• The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

  Charles Dickens

  White, Tears, Haunting

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.412

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• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  Charles Dickens

  Taken, Skeletons, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon
  But small, appear most long and terrible;
  So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,
  Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds,
  Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death,
  Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons.
  Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice,
  Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves:
  Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus,
  While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff,
  And sweat with an Imagination's weight.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Fate, Son

  "Dramatik Works".

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• Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

  Richard Gilman

  Baseball, Games, Fraternity

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• Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
  And give us not to think so far away
  As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
  All simply in the springing of the year.
  
  Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
  Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
  And make us happy in the happy bees,
  The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

  Robert Frost

  Spring, Flower, Thinking

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.10, Delphi Classics

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