Ghost Quotes

• I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

  William Booth

  Heaven, Hell, Christianity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And as to being in a fright,
  Allow me to remark
  That Ghosts have just as good a right
  In every way, to fear the light,
  As Men to fear the dark.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dark, Men, Light

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.832, Delphi Classics

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• No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Two, Pairs

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  Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

  Stephen King

  Hate, Real, Winning

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 26, 2013

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• Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Looks, Christmas Present

  Charles Dickens (2014). “A Christmas Carol (mini comic): (Mini Comics)”, p.11, Daniel Turner

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• But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

  Alan Weisman

  Earth, Nations

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• If the dead can't rest in peace, how on Earth can the living?

  Cheri Revai

  Rest In Peace, Earth, Ifs

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• O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

  Anne Boleyn

  Rocks, Quiet, Breasts

  Anne Boleyn, “O Death Rock Me Asleep”

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• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Halloween, Creativity, Ideas

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• I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Land, Phantoms, Nightmare

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• Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Elements, Individual, Spectre

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.901, Delphi Classics

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• If your cat's speaking Latin, you might have a problem.

  Jason Hawes

  Latin, Cat, Might

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• To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

  Norman O. Brown

  Ambition, Remembered

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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  The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Men, Evil People

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)

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• Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

  George William Curtis

  Memories, Romantic Love, Romance

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• I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

  Kishore Kumar

  Movie, Nice, People

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  True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Life, Sex

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• We must never ignore or pass by the prompting of the Spirit to render service to one another.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Spirit, Holy, Holy Ghost

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• I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, Diminish, Felt

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Sep 24, 2013

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• There is nothing as important as having the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Important, Companionship, Holy

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• Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Alive, Ratios

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

  Masamune Shirow

  Effort, Limits, Puppet Master

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• All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

  Jason Hawes

  Skeptic

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• I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through

  Tori Amos

  Moving, Trying, Passing

  Song: Putting the Damage On, Album: Boys for Pele, 1996

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• There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom, And they stand at my side and they lean on my chair.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Fear, Dark, Rooms

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

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