818 Quotes About Ghosts

Nobody knew what they were supposed to believe or what neighbors and relatives believed. Ghosts suddenly became as legitimate an option as anyone’s god.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

I'd say we're all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought.

No, no, you have none of you any idea. This is all nonsense, fantasy, it is not like this. Nothing so blood-curdling and becreepered and crude - not so ... so laughable. The truth is quite other, and altogether more terrible.

The dead are watching, whether or not we choose to listen to their stories.

With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.

I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind.

But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.

When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I don't know what to make of it, just write it like I tell it, so the reader can make up his own mind.