Ghost Quotes: Unearthly Whispers & Haunting Words

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

"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts"

"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets"

Sara Paretsky, Author

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

Alexander Smith, Poet

"I don't believe in ghosts, but I am afraid of them"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

"Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

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

Willie Morris, Writer

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

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"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, Poet

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work"

Sara Paretsky, Author

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

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

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

Mel Gibson, Actor

"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"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, Author

"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

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

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

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

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"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, Novelist

"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity"

John McGahern, Writer

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

John Astin, Actor

"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, Novelist

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

Robert Duvall, Actor

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

John Malkovich, Actor

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

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

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

Sally Field, Actress

"I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see"

Patton Oswalt, Comedian

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

Donal Logue, Actor

"I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare"

Simon Pegg, Comedian

"I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had"

Illeana Douglas, Actress

"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone"

Maggie Smith, Actress

"I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

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

Anne Boleyn, Royalty

"The bush is full of ghosts, and they never quite go away"

Xavier Herbert, Writer

"I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'"

Devon Werkheiser, Actor

"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub"

Mary Austin, Writer

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