Ghost Quotes - Page 30

• While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

  Elissa Schappell

  Men, Compassion, Ghost Stories

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• Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.

  Susan Hill

  Lying, Ghost Stories, Stories

  Susan Hill (1983). “Ghost stories”

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• There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Sweet, Children

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• All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.

  Ada Limon

  Men, Night, Doors

  Ada Limón (2010). “Sharks in the Rivers”, p.7, Milkweed Editions

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• The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always dealing with ghosts from the past and the looming dark presence of the Vatican.

  Chiara Barzini

  Beautiful, Dark, Italian

  "Go Forth (vol. 5)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. November 21, 2012.

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• no one who has seen an angel ever mistakes it for a ghost. Angels are remarkable for their warmth and light, and all who see them speak in awe of their irridescent and refulgent light, of brilliant colors, or else of the unbearable whiteness of their being. You are flooded with laughter, happiness.

  Sophy Burnham

  Laughter, Mistake, Angel

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.35, Penguin

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• I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.

  Gaelen Foley

  Boys, Trying, Castles

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• I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Father, Three

  Joseph Smith Jr. (2010). “Lectures on Faith”, p.88, Cedar Fort

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• Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Memories, Writing, Psychological

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• The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

  Oswald Chambers

  Common Sense, Temptation, Satan

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• Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the past (bundling them up and sending them, COD: distributing them to my friends) even as I already had the scissors in hand and was cutting his shirts and a pair of pants into teeny pieces. When there was nothing left of his ghost except a large pile of cloth, I decided to learn how to quilt.

  Anne Elizabeth Moore

  Quilts, Cutting, Past

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• I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then, but my parents would tell me that every night, at the same time, they would hear someone walking up the stairs.

  Meaghan Rath

  Baby, Believe, Men

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

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• Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

  Jeff Grubb

  Working Together, Stories, Truce

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• Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

  John Updike

  Country, Law, Smell

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.25, Random House

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• The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: Receive the Holy Ghost. And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Choices, Church, Confirmation

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• 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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• There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

  Thomas Huxley

  Savages, Without God

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.318, Cambridge University Press

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• Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.

  Thomas Huxley

  Kings, Stones, Elohim

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1892). “Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions”

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• ... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Believe, Law

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin.

  Anton Newcombe

  Country, Block, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.

  Stephen King

  Children, Supernatural Beings, Scare

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.

  John Wycliffe

  Should Have, People, Doctrine

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• Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

  Jay Bell

  Rooms, Used, Couches

  Jay Bell (2012). “Something Like Winter (m/m romance)”, p.171, Jay Bell

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• I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Reading, Night

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Ghost Stories, Nasty, Protagonists

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