William Shakespeare Quotes About Ghosts

• So many horrid Ghosts.

  William Shakespeare

  Ghost

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.387

• For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Cutting, Night

  William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear, from Mr. Pope's Edition”, p.122

• Remember thee!
  Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
  In this distracted globe.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Ghost, Remember

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 95

• That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

  William Shakespeare

  Intelligence, Gulls, Ghost

  Sonnet 86

• Despair and die. The ghosts

  William Shakespeare

  Despair, Ghost, Dies

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The spirit of the plays of Shakspeare: exhibited in a series of outline plates illustrative of the story of each play”

• By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Denmark In Hamlet, Ghost

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 84

• 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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