Ghosts Quotes

“Holy Spirit”

“Ghosts in Mesopotamian religions”

“The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.”

“Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.”

“Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?”

“I kept on ignoring him. The dead are only ghosts, after all.”

“For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both.”

“Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.”

“GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.”

“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?”

“There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave.
To tell us this.”

“Ghosts don't do things to you. Ghosts make you do unspeakable things to yourself.”

“A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”

“Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.”

“When thoroughly reliable people encounter ghosts, their stories are difficult to explain away.”

“What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?”

“The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.”

“Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”

“Ghosts are not the souls of the dead, but the souls of people written out of history when history changes.”

“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?”