818 Quotes About Ghosts

Aye, but there's this in it, Dowlas," said the landlord, speaking in a tone of much candour and tolerance. "There's folks, i' my opinion, they can't see ghos'es, not if they stood as plain as a pike-staff before 'em. And there's reason i' that. For there's my wife, now, can't smell, not if she'd the strongest o' cheese under her nose. I never see'd a ghost myself; but then I says to myself, "Very like I haven't got the smell for 'em." I mean, putting a ghost for a smell, or else contrairiways.

Ghosts are both remnants of history and witnesses to it.

Ghost stories are how we forgive houses for daring to outlive us.

...if you come across someone sad and you do not try to make them smile, then you have disgraced your own humanity.

Ghosts sit in my mouth and sing.

Higher still than love of humankind is the love of causes and ghosts.

I wasn't supposed to be bonding with him. I was supposed to be getting rid of him.

Horror shows teach you nothing about being afraid of ghosts. The experience is much more terrifying in real life.

And isn't it better to be haunted by ghosts of the living rather than the dead?