Ghosts Quotes

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, True, Everyone

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.
Chuck Palahniuk

Life, Fun, Live

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, True, Everyone

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

Love, Crime, Mysteries

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

Music, Understand, Hand

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Old, Worst, Loves

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sunshine, Old, House

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams

Fear, Mind, Cheerful

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

Confidence, Chase, Describe

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Algernon H. Blackwood

Beautiful, Evil, Place

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Erica Jong

History, Famous, Through

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
Umberto Eco

End, Point, Talking

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
Florence Welch

Beautiful, Real, Seen

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
Richard Harris Barham

Speak, Ladies, Spoke

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field

Fighting, Anybody, Image

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

Thought, Seen, Occasions

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

Live, Here, Sure

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
Willie Morris

Home, Deep, Claim

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
Lorna Luft

Mother, Her, She

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
Adam Duritz

Dreams, Movies, Memories

When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
Zach Braff

Life, Spend, Hour

I wish ghosts were real!
Holly Madison

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.
Tony Parsons

Alone, Live, End

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Michael Korda

Success, Live, Confidence

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
Alice Englert

Amazing, Someone, Able

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
Matthew Macfadyen

Play, Worried, Parts

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

Knowledge, Tragedies, Witches

Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.
Rachel Dratch

Two, Seen, Room

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

Talk, Culture, Western

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