Ghost Quotes - Page 38

• The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stars, Father, Moving

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Life eternal is to live in unity, in families, with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Eternal life is only possible through the keys of the priesthood of God, which were restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. Holding that eternal goal before the youth you lead is as great a gift as you could give them.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Father, Son, Keys

  "Help Them Aim High" by Henry B. Eyring, www.lds.org. October 2012.

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• Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Heart, People, Joy

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• The Holy Ghost has as a major purpose witnessing that Jesus is the Christ. As we plead for help in His service, the Holy Ghost will come and confirm our faith in Him. Our faith in the Savior will increase. And, as we continue to serve Him, we will come to love Him.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Jesus, Purpose, Helping

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• To keep ourselves grounded in the Lord's Church, we can and must train our eyes to recognize the power of the Lord in the service of those He has called. We must be worthy of the companionship of the Holy Ghost. And we need to pray for the Holy Ghost to help us know that men who lead us hold this power.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Eye, Men, Church

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• With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Hurt, Humility, Watches

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• What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.

  Chris Hardwick

  Night, Water, Age

  "Review: Roundup: The Exorcists" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. April 20, 2009.

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• But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

  Rachel Cohn

  Differences, Choices, Knows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.50, Egmont UK

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• Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Men, Looks

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• So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Fall, Eye

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

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• That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

  Libba Bray

  Lying, Dark, Soul

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Dog, Break Through, Space

  "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Faith, Morning, Spring

  'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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• ...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!

  Gaston Leroux

  Girl, Eye, Voice

  Gaston Leroux (2016). “The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Mystery Classics): The Ultimate Gothic Romance Mystery and One of the First Locked-Room Crime Mysteries”, p.10, e-artnow

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• Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

  Salman Rushdie

  Unfinished Business, Unfinished, Knows

  "The Satanic Verses". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 1988.

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• What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1873). “Marjorie Daw and Other People”, p.168

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• Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Thinking, People, Might

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2006). “Hardboiled: & Hard Luck”, p.10, Grove Press

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• What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Summer, Lonely, Morning

  Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) sonnet 19

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• To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

  Henry Miller

  World, Madmen, Joyous

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Book, Mean

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

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• For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

  Henry Miller

  Chaos, Midst, Given

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Real, Sky

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 8, 1925.

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• Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Suffering, Said

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• I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Believe, Men, Acting

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