818 Quotes About Ghosts

Ghost tours are popular with tourists because they allow access to dissident knowledge, dirty laundry, backstage. They are the celebrity gossip of history, the salacious underbelly of the past and we’re drawn to them because the standard history often obscures as much as it reveals.

This ghost-seeing thing could be creepy or beautiful, and often was both at the same time.

When we arrived at the Lodz ghetto, I was sixteen years old and Ruth was five. My mother was forty-six, my father forty-eight.When I left the Lodz ghetto, I was seventeen years old and Ruth was five. My mother was forty-six, my father forty-eight.When I die, I will be an old man...But even then I will always know that my sister is five. She will always be five.

…Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Your ghosts cannot have you, Charles. So exorcize them before I have to.

May was used to strange things like this. Her mom always said all sorts of quirks came with a house as old as theirs. May used to insist it was ghosts. But Mrs. Bird had long ago given her one too many stern looks on the topic. So May simply sank beneath the water and let bubbles drift out of her nose.

I'll remember your words," he told her with returned seriousness, though he pictured Anna taking her grandmother's rolling pin after the ghosts who haunted him, and it made him want to...smirk again.

I died recently, and I am in no hurry to enjoy the experience again just yet.

I believe in ghosts. They're the ones who haunt us, the ones who have left us behind. Many times in my life I have felt them around me, observing, witnessing, when no one in the living world knew or cared what happened.