Is there anything creepier than quotes from ghosts? Of course not!
The concept of ghosts is nothing new, as stories have been told of them since the beginning of time, but that doesn’t make them any less chilling to think about.
These ghost quotes sent shivers down my spine when I read them, and they’ll send chills down yours too.
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Best Spooky Ghost Quotes
Maybe all the people who say ghosts don’t exist are just afraid to admit that they do. ―Michael Ende
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghost-like character of the real variable. ―Alfred North Whitehead
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions. ―George Henry Lewes
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It’s really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles. ―Leon M. Lederman
Ghosts are Transparent
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. —J. K. Rowling
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet’s father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. ―Alfred North Whitehead
Our world will yet grow so subtle that it will be as ludicrous to believe in a god as it is today to believe in ghosts. ―Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end! — Mehmet Murat ildan
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Towns and cities, too, which always retain the ghost of their earlier incarnations beneath today’s concrete and glass. ―Dame Penelope Lively
Ghosts of Words
The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words. —Marie Lu
We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’ still haunts many wise heads. ―Ludwig Büchner
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. —Jacques Derrida
Simon, Jared and Mallory Grace move into a creepy Victorian house with their mother after their parents divorce and the three kids get themselves in trouble. After moving in, they discover that something isn’t quite right with the house. It’s haunted, but not by ghosts. It’s haunted by fairies and other classic fantasy creatures from another world. —Tony DiTerlizzi
Eventually, we reach … the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. ―Edwin Powell Hubble
Almost every reality you “know” at any given second is a mere ghost held in memory. —Howard Bloom
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. —Frédéric Chopin
I stayed where I was and studied the tree. I wondered if my mama, wherever she was, had a tree full of bottles; and I wondered if I was a ghost to her, the same way she sometimes seemed like a ghost to me. —Kate DiCamillo
The main sources of mathematical invention seem to be within man rather than outside of him: his own inveterate and insatiable curiosity, his constant itching for intellectual adventure; and likewise the main obstacles to mathematical progress seem to be also within himself; his scandalous inertia and laziness, his fear of adventure, his need of conformity to old standards, and his obsession by mathematical ghosts. ―W.W. Sawyer
Ideas, like ghosts, must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves. ―Charles Dickens
Through our sentences and paragraphs long-gone ghosts still have their say within the collective mind. ―Howard Bloom
Only once he has deposited her safely on the doctor’s doorstep, does the horseman reveal that he is the ghost she fears. —Kevin Crossley-Holland
Charlotte Was a Ghost
Charlotte believed in ghosts, for after all, she had been a kind of ghost herself. —Penelope Farmer
You say a thousand things,
Persuasively,
And with strange passion hotly I agree,
And praise your zest,
And then
A blackbird sings, or fieldfaring men,
Ghostlike, with loaded wain,
Come down the twilit lane
To rest,
And what is all your argument to me.
— John Drinkwater
I felt as if there was nothing to count on or touch, nothing except echoes and shadows and disappearances. Life had turned to quicksand and the faint yellow light in the kitchen spread out toward me like the ghostly breath of lives that had left. —Martine Murray
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine … maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements. ―Gilbert Ryle
I gasped when I saw them. Now that they were in the light, they were transparent–fully transparent… They were in fact ghosts: man-shaped stains on the brightness of that air. —C. S. Lewis
Science fiction … is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. ―Brian Aldiss
I do not study to understand the transit of the stars. My soul has never sought for responses from ghosts. I detest all sacrilegious rites. —Saint Aurelius Augustinus Augustine
Out of the frozen wastes, she studied the words and runes that would give her power to understand the messages of the ghost drum. At last, she heard Safa’s cries. —Susan Price
I have broken the machine (the atom) and touched the ghost of matter. —Sir Ernest Rutherford
As if in a trance, M.C. gazed out over the rolling hills. He sensed Sarah moving through undergrowth up the mountainside. As if past were present. As if he were a ghost, waiting, and she, the living. —Virginia Hamilton
A friend is like an owl, both beautiful and wise. Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost, whose spirit never dies.
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: “That the intention of the holy ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.” — Galileo Galilei
But there’s nothing to be done about it. All I can do is put in time waiting for the inevitable, observing as the ghosts of my past rattle around my vacuous present. They crash and bang and make themselves at home, mostly because there’s no competition. I’ve stopped fighting them. —Sara Gruen
We’re here, you know … All the time. You can talk to us and think about us. It doesn’t have to be sad or scary. —Alice Sebold
I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
For after the rain when with never a stain,
The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams,
Build up the blue dome of air,
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
I arise and unbuild it again.
— Percy Shelley
Dewar’s rule in his laboratory was as absolute as that of a Pharaoh, and he showed deference to no one except the ghost of Faraday whom he met occasionally all night in the gallery behind the lecture room. ―Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn
Science never saw a ghost, nor does it look for any, but it sees everywhere the traces, and it is itself the agent, of a Universal Intelligence. ―Henry Thoreau
The creative element in the mind of man … emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts. ―Loren Eiseley
‘I neither believe in ghosts nor feel uneasy,’ he replied. ‘I never saw a ghost myself, and I never met with any one who had; and I have generally found that strange and unaccountable things have almost always been accounted for, and found to be quite simple, on close examination.’ —Robert Michael Ballantyne
What follows it the strange and fateful tale of a boy, a girl, and a ghost. —Tom McNeal
Once in New York, you are sure to be a great success. I know lots of people here who would give a hundred thousand dollars to have a grandfather, and much more than that to have a family ghost. —Oscar Wilde
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. —Samuel Beckett Click To TweetI have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. —Umberto Eco Click To TweetThe oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. Click To TweetAll that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. —Edgar Allan Poe Click To TweetWe are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. —John Keats Click To TweetThe memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words. —Marie Lu Click To TweetIdeas, like ghosts, must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves. ―Charles Dickens Click To TweetSpooky Ghost Quotes with Images
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FAQs
What is your favorite Ghost quote?
* I’m not going to hurt you. I’m just going to kill you. —Beetlejuice
*Death is but a door, time is but a window. I’ll be back. —Ghostbusters
* If you have ghosts, you have everything. —Toni Morrison
* I am the ghost of Christmas Past. —A Christmas Carol
Are Ghosts the spirits of the dead, haunting the living?
Ghosts are often said to be closely related to death and represent an in-between state for those who have yet to cross over. When you see a ghost or experience a ghostly phenomenon, it may be that you are witnessing something in your own life that is unresolved or unprocessed.
Are Ghosts figments of our imagination, born from our fears and anxieties?
Theories on the causes of seeing ghosts vary depending on personal beliefs. There are many explanations as to why we might perceive paranormal activity when there is none, such as sleep paralysis and waking up with a start. Some people also believe that these unexplained occurrences could stem from an acute awareness of one’s surroundings which goes unnoticed by others – and maybe even ourselves!
Are Ghosts real?
It’s difficult to know what to think about ghosts because they’re not tangible and any proof of their existence is purely anecdotal. However, studies show that between 30% and 60% of adults in the United States report experiencing some form of contact with a deceased person through dreams, sightings, physical contact or otherwise.
What do Ghosts look like?
Most reports of ghost sightings describe them as wearing clothes typical of the era in which they died. Oftentimes, their faces are blurred and unrecognizable, but sometimes you can see them very clearly. They may float around aimlessly or wander around looking lost before disappearing into thin air.
Do Ghosts hurt people?
Not necessarily. They typically don’t interact with the living world, except in rare cases where they seek revenge against someone who did them wrong while alive.
Can a Ghost be seen on camera or video?
The short answer is no. For many years, paranormal activity was thought to be entirely explainable by known scientific processes. With digital technology, however, reports of ghost sightings shot up, making it difficult to deny their existence.
Do all cultures have Ghosts?
Yes, though there may be different interpretations and names for them. The Chinese word gui is used to refer to restless spirits, whereas the Japanese word yurei refers to vengeful female ghosts.
Do animals see Ghosts too?
Animals’ heightened senses allow them to sense things humans cannot. Like most animals, dogs, and cats tend to avoid places where they sense danger or discomfort. Though they are more likely than humans to see/smell ghosts because of their close connection with the earth, most animals aren’t consciously aware that what they’re sensing is actually supernatural.
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