Ghost Quotes - Page 26

• The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

  Rose Macaulay

  Lying, People, Lasts

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• How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

  Virginia Woolf

  Ghost Stories, Feelings, Our Love

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.

  John Selden

  Men, Roots, Tree

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• The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Addiction, House, Smoking

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cheer, Laughter, Memories

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• To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Culture, Contributing, Seems

  "20 Q&As: Chuck Palahniuk". Interview with Stuart Hammond, www.dazeddigital.com. September 26, 2011.

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• it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  World, Made, Inarticulate

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• Departed suns their trails of splendor drew
  Across departed summers: whispers came
  From voices, long ago resolved again
  Into the primeval Silence, and we twain,
  Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same,
  As in a spectral mirror wandered there.

  Bayard Taylor

  Summer, Mirrors, Self

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• Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

  Edna O'Brien

  Talking, Two, Evening

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• Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

  Jeff Dunham

  People, Biographies, Autobiography

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

  Amy Tan

  Believe, Eye, San Francisco

  Amy Tan (2012). “The Hundred Secret Senses”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

  Isabel Allende

  Dream, Children, People

  Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

  Elizabeth I

  Gratitude, Sin, Holy

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• Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.

  Helen McCloy

  Believe

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• Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might even "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

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• Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Fighting, Hazards, Satisfaction

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• 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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• The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.

  Lydia Davis

  Pain, Writing, Creating

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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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• Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Imagination, Mind

  John Owen (2001). “The Person of Christ”, p.159, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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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• Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

  Ariana Franklin

  Psychics, Would Be, Crowds

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• Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

  Ariana Franklin

  Taken, Proof, Fingerprints

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• October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

  Joy Fielding

  Shadow, Months, October

  Joy Fielding (2016). “Tell Me No Secrets: A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller”, p.58, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra parts jumbled in from other puzzles make it almost impossible to assemble. But in Ghost, Fred Burton manages to join together enough pieces to give us a discerning look at that world. This is a story, told in human terms, that will help make sense of the great puzzle of our times.

  Eric L. Haney

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Giving, Missing

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