Ghost Quotes:

Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Missionary, Might, Ghost

Let us honor the Holy Ghost.

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Honor, Spirit, Ghost

Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!

- Aaron Boone

topic: Yankees, Jeter, Ghost

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

- Adam Johnson

topic: People, Forever, Ghost

Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.

- Adolfo Bioy Casares

topic: Want, Ghost, Existence

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

- Alan Weisman

topic: Earth, Ghost

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Names, Ghost

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Ghost, Injury, Difficult

Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.

- Alexandra Bracken

topic: Memories, People, Ghost, Ruby Daly

I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me

- Amit Abraham

topic: Believe, Ghost, Believe In Me

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

- Amy Tan

topic: Mother, Teaching, Ghost

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

topic: Tragedy, Ghost, Witch

Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.

- Andrew W.K.

topic: Might, Ghost, Claims

We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.

- Anis Mojgani

topic: Kissing, Lips, Ghost

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

- Anne Boleyn

source: Anne Boleyn, “O Death Rock Me Asleep”

topic: Rocks, Quiet, Ghost

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

- Anne Michaels

source: Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.78, A&C Black

topic: World, Ghost, Enough

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Ghost, Life Is, Holy

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

- Ariana Franklin

topic: Taken, Ghost, Proof

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

- Bess Truman

topic: Nuts, Half, Ghost

Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

- Beth Richardson Gutcheon

topic: Believe, Ghost, Wells

Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

- Bonnie L. Oscarson

topic: Ghost, Companionship, Holy, Conversion, Virtuous Life

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.

- Brian Robertson

topic: Nine, Ghost, Reason, Paranormal, Reason For Everything

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

- Brigham Young

topic: Men, Few Words, Ghost, Holy Ghost

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

- Bruce R. McConkie

topic: Important, Ghost, Companionship

God stands revealed or remains forever unknown.

- Bruce R. McConkie

topic: Forever, Ghost, Holy

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Ghost, Guidance, Holy, Holy Ghost

Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.

- Celia Thaxter

source: Celia Thaxter (1896). “The Poems of Celia Thaxter”

topic: Vanishing, Dandelions, Ghost

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth...

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Mouths, Ghost

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Prayer, Heart, Ghost

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

- Cheri Revai

topic: Rest In Peace, Earth, Ghost

There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

- Christian Morgenstern

topic: Travel, Ghost, Company

° “Not a ghost, but an angel.

- Claudia Gray

topic: Angel, Ghost

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

- Conrad Aiken

source: Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

topic: Singing, Ghost, Fury

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

- Craig Benzine

topic: Trying, Succeed, Ghost

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

- Dan Barker

topic: Thinking, Action, Ghost

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

- Dan Fogelberg

topic: Running, Dream, Ghost, Corridors

I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission.

- Dara Wier

topic: Ideas, Ghost, Missions, Couplets

I already accepted that I relate to nothing. The more I gain, the more lonely it is I know I'm like a ghost.

- Daul Kim

topic: Lonely, Gains, Ghost

Inspired questions will bring about inspired answers. Seek for the companionship of the Holy Ghost as you prepare.

- David A. Bednar

topic: Answers, Inspired, Ghost

When we are baptized and confirmed, the promised blessing is that we may always have the Holy Ghost to be with us. If you are consistently good, you will have the companionship of the Holy Ghost much of the time.

- David A. Bednar

topic: Blessing, May, Ghost, Baptized

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

- David Bowie

topic: Hands, Awakening, Ghost

Every love story is a ghost story.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Ghost Stories, Stories, Ghost

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

- Dean Koontz

topic: House, Architecture, Ghost, Haunted Houses

Sorry, we've got ghosts.

- Deborah Harkness

topic: Sorry, Ghost

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

- Dick Cavett

topic: Ghost, Miserable, Forlorn

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.

- Donal Logue

topic: Ghost, Coming Out, Riders, Ghost Rider

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

- Donald Harington

topic: Needs, Ghost

A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Girl, Two, Ghost

On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

- Eleanor Farjeon

source: Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “The New Book of Days”, p.372, Random House

topic: Dumb, Ghost, Speak

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

topic: World, Ghost, Made, Inarticulate

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

- Elizabeth Wein

topic: Elephants, Balloons, Ghost, Southampton

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Bullshit, Ghost, Life Is

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Ghost, Mask, Holes, Moths

I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.

- Emilie Autumn

topic: People, Ghost, Not Afraid

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.

- Eric Bana

topic: Ghost

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

- Erin Morgenstern

topic: Father, Thinking, Ghost, Night Circus

The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

- Florence King

topic: Marriage, Ghost, Kind, Breathing Life

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

- Frederic Chopin

topic: Ghost, Difficulty

Often, I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride.

- Gabe Jennings

topic: Ghost, Stride, Runners

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

- Gail Godwin

source: Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.144, Ballantine Books

topic: Ghost

Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!

- Gaston Leroux

source: 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.105, e-artnow

topic: Blood, Ghost, Good Things

The opera ghost really existed

- Gaston Leroux

topic: Opera, Ghost

We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.

- Gaston Leroux

topic: Opera, Ghost

Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.

- Gena Showalter

topic: Angel, Trials, Ghost

...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.

- George Henry Boker

source: George Henry Boker (1857). “Plays and poems”, p.462

topic: Lovers, Ghost, Spots

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

- George Sterling

topic: Atheism, World, Ghost

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

topic: Wings, World, Ghost

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

- Gilbert Ryle

topic: Machines, Ghost, Dogma

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

- Graham Joyce

topic: People, Ghost

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

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

topic: Elements, Ghost, Individual, Spectre

In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble

- Hans Holzer

topic: Hunting, Years, Ghost

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

- Helen McCloy

topic: Believe, Ghost

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.

- Helene Hanff

topic: Fall, Looks, Ghost

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Covenant, Fruit, Ghost, Holy Ghost

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

- Henry Miller

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

topic: World, Ghost, Madmen

I wish ghosts were real!

- Holly Madison

source: "11 Questions With Holly Madison". Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com. December 19, 2008.

topic: Real, Wish, Ghost

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

topic: People, Ghost

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Way, Ghost, Rum, Whip It

I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

- Idris Elba

topic: Roles, Looks, Ghost, Ghost Rider

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

- Ilsa J. Bick

topic: Land, Phantoms, Ghost

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

- Italo Calvino

source: Italo Calvino (2012). “Under the Jaguar Sun”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Voice, Ghost

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

- Jack Abbott

source: Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

topic: Night, Subjectivity, Ghost

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

- Jack Abbott

source: Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

topic: Long, Ghost

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

- Jacques Derrida

topic: Cinema, Ghost, Plus

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

- James Herbert

topic: Ghost

We are firm believers of the paranormal, but we believe over 80 percent of all claims can be disproved.

- Jason Hawes

topic: Believe, Ghost, Claims, Paranormal

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

- Jason Hawes

topic: Ghost, Skeptic

We once installed a $1.49 trap in a woman's toilet and she never had ghost problems again.

- Jason Hawes

topic: Toilets, Ghost, Problem

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

- Javier Marías

topic: Perspective, Stories, Ghost

Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

- Jay Bell

source: Jay Bell (2012). “Something Like Winter (m/m romance)”, p.171, Jay Bell

topic: Rooms, Ghost, Used

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

- Jean Rhys

topic: Rooms, Ghost, Empty

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

- Jeff Dunham

topic: People, Biographies, Ghost

Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

- Jeff Grubb

topic: Working Together, Stories, Ghost, Truce

I definitely believe in ghosts.

- Jenna Dewan

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Ghost

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

- Jessica Alba

topic: People, Western Culture, Ghost

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

- Jill Johnston

source: Jill Johnston (1985). “Paper daughter”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Dream, Inmates, Ghost

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

- Joan Lowery Nixon

source: Joan Lowery Nixon (2007). “The Haunting”, p.111, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

topic: Believe, Matter, Ghost

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

- John Astin

topic: Thinking, Ghost, Figures

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?

- John Connolly

topic: Littles, Ghost, Figures

The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion.  It makes one a god.

- John G. Lake

topic: Dominion, Spirit, Ghost

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

- John Malkovich

topic: Confidence, Ghost, Lacking

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

- John Philpot Curran

source: Charles PHILLIPS (One of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors'Court.), John Philpot CURRAN (Right Hon.) (1850). “Recollections of Curran, and some of his contemporaries ... Second edition”, p.245

topic: Ghost, Not Afraid, Murderer

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Children, People, Ghost

The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but he is not entitled to repeated manifestations. After such a revelation is given, he is to act, for the Holy Ghost cannot be appealed to for continued manifestations until after baptism and the gift has been bestowed.

- Joseph Fielding Smith

topic: Baptism, Honest, Ghost

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

- Katy Lederer

source: "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

topic: Thinking, Useless, Ghost, Misled, Wordsworth

[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

- Keegan-Michael Key

topic: Adoption, Comedian, Ghost

Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.

- Keith K. Hilbig

topic: Essentials, Ghost, Satan

Dont talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.

- Kelley Armstrong

topic: Crazy, Kids, Ghost

I believe in spirits, not ghosts.

- Kendra Wilkinson

source: Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

topic: Believe, Spirit, Ghost

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

- Kenneth Anger

topic: Home, Hollywood, Ghost

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

- Kristin Hannah

topic: Ghost, Standing Alone, Said

Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

- Larry Niven

topic: Jesus, Technique, Ghost

In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

topic: Believe, Ghost, Aspect, Wintergirls

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

topic: Sun, Ghost, Come Up

Every good thing depends on getting and keeping the power of the Holy Ghost in our lives. Everything depends on that.

- Lawrence E. Corbridge

topic: Ghost, Holy, Good Things

Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.

- Lesley Howarth

topic: Ghost, Kind, Showy

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Common Sense, Common, Ghost

She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.

- Libba Bray

topic: Dream, Ghost, Inconsequential

They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.

- Libba Bray

topic: Girl, Tea, Ghost

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

- Lisa Ann Sandell

topic: Tree, Brotherhood, Ghost, Birch Trees

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.

- Lloyd C. Douglas

topic: Halloween, Men, Ghost

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

- Loren Eiseley

topic: Men, Ghost, Continents

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

- M. Russell Ballard

topic: Spirit, Ghost, Holy

Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.

- Marc Cohn

source: Song: Walking In Memphis, Album: Marc Cohn, 1991

topic: Unions, Saws, Ghost, Avenues

great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob...

- Margaret Weis

topic: Doubt, Ghost, Snob, Zifnab

But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.

- Marguerite Yourcenar

topic: Men, Ghost, Circumstances

Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?

- Marjorie Bowen

source: Marjorie Bowen (1948). “Mignonette: A Novel”

topic: Doe, Ghost, Oneself

It's inappropriate for the queen of the dead to be afraid of ghosts.

- MaryJanice Davidson

topic: Queens, Ghost, Inappropriate

Boo: "Go talk to her." Callum: "About what?" Boo: "Anything." Callum: "You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'" Boo: "I do that." Callum: "I love it when you get it wrong.

- Maureen Johnson

topic: Want, Ghost, Walks, You Want Me

I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Cowboy, Soul, Ghost

If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over" - Suze Simon in the Mediator

- Meg Cabot

topic: People, Would Be, Ghost, Suze Simon

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

- Meg Rosoff

topic: Scared, Ghost, Frightened, Pipers

I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize.

- Mel Gibson

topic: Careers, Ghost, Film, Passion Of The Christ, Holy Ghost

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

- Mel Gibson

topic: Ghost, Film, Holy

Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.

- Michael Ende

topic: People, Ghost

Ego is a ghost who is terrified of dying

- Mooji

topic: Ego, Dying, Ghost

Lovin this Ghost Ghirls! It was great to get to play a madame not just a boring prostitute.

- Natasha Leggero

source: FaceBook post by Natasha Leggero from Sep 10, 2013

topic: Play, Ghost, Boring

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Ghost, Made, Interest

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Feelings, Events, Ghost, Scarlet, Fatality

No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science ignores them. But to claim they are a fabrication and do not exist because science ignores them is a mistake. Because ghosts are real.

- Natsuhiko Kyogoku

topic: Mistake, Real, Ghost, Real You, Fabrication

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: People, Darkness, Ghost

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

- Nick Tosches

topic: Ghost, Drifting, Friends Come And Go, Significant Other, Happenstance

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

- Norman Doidge

topic: Fear, Ghost, Ancestor

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

- Norman O. Brown

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

topic: Ambition, Ghost, Remembered

After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

- Oren Peli

source: "'Paranormal activity' director Oren Peli on what scares him during Halloween" by Adam Rosenberg, www.mtv.com. October 26, 2009.

topic: Watches, Ghost, Demon, Exorcist

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Common Sense, Temptation, Ghost, Holy Ghost

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

- Pamela Stephenson

topic: People, Would Be, Ghost

The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.

- Parley P. Pratt

topic: Intellectual, Ghost, Holy

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

- Patricia Briggs

topic: Daylight, Ghost, Easier

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

- Patrick Modiano

topic: Nice, Cities, Ghost

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.

- Paul Auster

topic: World, Ghost, Sometimes

Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?

- Paul Feig

topic: World, Ghost, Busted

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

- Paullina Simons

topic: Sorrow, Ghost, Ecstasy

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

- Peter Straub

source: Peter Straub (2011). “The Throat: Blue Rose Trilogy (3)”, p.75, Anchor

topic: People, World, Ghost

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

- Rae Armantrout

source: Rae Armantrout (2009). “Versed”, p.70, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Ghost, Speak, Undone, Swarms

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.

- Ray Parker, Jr.

source: Song: Ghost Busters

topic: Strange, Ghost, Busters

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

- Rex Brandt

source: Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”

topic: Dark, Light, Ghost, Goblin

No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire and which you are not going to receive through revelation.

- Rex E. Lee

topic: Matter, Needs, Ghost

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

- Richard Gilman

topic: Baseball, Games, Ghost

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

- Richard Harris Barham

topic: Funny, Halloween, Ghost, Inspirational Halloween, Christian Halloween

I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.

- Robbie Williams

topic: Thinking, Scary, Ghost

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

- Robert Duvall

topic: Doe, Ghost, Individual

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

- Robert E. Howard

source: Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.117, Del Rey

topic: Life, Dream, Ghost

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

- Saint Basil

topic: Fall, Utterance, Ghost

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

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Ghost, Unfinished, Unfinished Business

The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.

- Samuel Chadwick

topic: Christian, Hopeless, Ghost

I don't necessarily not believe in ghosts, but I've never seen a ghost. A ghost has never jumped out and been like, 'Hey, how's it going?

- Sara Paxton

topic: Believe, Hey, Ghost

If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

- Sharon Needles

topic: Women, Ghost, Stage

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

- Sheri L. Dew

topic: Optimism, Challenges, Ghost

Wherever the Holy Ghost has right of way, the gifts of the Spirit will be in manifestation; and where these gifts are never in manifestation, I question whether He is present.

- Smith Wigglesworth

topic: Way, Spirit, Ghost, Gifts Of The Spirit

There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.

- Smith Wigglesworth

topic: Reign, Ghost, Holy

Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Ghost, get down and pray for power.

- Smith Wigglesworth

topic: Down And, Praying, Ghost

God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.

- Smith Wigglesworth

topic: People, Want, Ghost

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

- Sophie Ellis Bextor

topic: Believe, Ghost, Influence, Macabre

And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?

- Stan Rice

source: Stan Rice (1983). “Body of Work”, Lost Roads Pub

topic: Angel, Ghost, Drag

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

- Stephen Greenblatt

source: "An interview about Will in the World". "Bookworm" with Michael Silverblatt, stephengreenblatt.com. March 16, 2013.

topic: Catholic, Way, Ghost, Confronting, Grappling

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

- Stephen King

topic: Ghost, Mystery, Crime

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts

- Stephen King

topic: Fists, Ghost, Stills, Stammering, Twister

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

- Stephen King

topic: Ghost, Sometimes, Muse, Uninvited

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Feet, Ghost, Silent

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

- Sylvia Browne

topic: Thinking, Ghost, Aggravated

If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.

- T. H. White

topic: Stupidity, Ghost, Sin

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

- Taylor Caldwell

topic: Ghost, Occasions

Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires.

- Thomas C Foster

source: Thomas C. Foster (2009). “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, p.17, Harper Collins

topic: Vampire, Ghost

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

- Thomas Huxley

topic: Savages, Ghost

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Poverty, Paper, Ghost, Paper Money

If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Temptation, Scripture, Ghost

O lost, And by the wind grieved, Ghost, Come back again.

- Thomas Wolfe

topic: Wind, Ghost, Lost, Back Again

I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.

- Tony Earley

source: Tony Earley (2001). “Somehow Form a Family: Stories that are Mostly True”, Algonquin Books

topic: Thinking, Stories, Ghost

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

- Vachel Lindsay

source: Vachel Lindsay (1963). “Selected poems”

topic: Men, House, Ghost, Swine

For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Time, Heart, Ghost

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Doctrine, Spirit, Ghost

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Heaven, Ghost, Hell, Without God, Regeneration

I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world — Death is only an incident in Life.

- William De Morgan

source: "Joseph Vance". Book by William De Morgan, Chapter XI, 1906.

topic: Other Worlds, Messages, Ghost, Spiritualism

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

- William De Morgan

source: William Frend De Morgan (1906). “Joseph Vance: An Ill-written Autobiography”, H. Frowde

topic: Squares, Ghost

So many horrid Ghosts.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Ghost

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

- William Stanley Jevons

topic: Matter, Ghost, Dense

I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.

- William Wordsworth

topic: Way, Looks, Ghost, Apparitions

I never really had any God at all, just an imagined one, an inherited ghost.

- Erik Fosnes Hansen

topic: Ghost

I have never seen a ghost, no. Or I've buried it deep in my subconscious.

- Francois Arnaud

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Ghost, Subconscious