Ghost Quotes
Although ghosts generally have a scary and spooky connotation, there have been various writers, intellectuals, and prestigious individuals that have used ghosts and the concept of being ghostly in quotes that have meaning beyond scaring people. Ghost quotes usually have an underlying meaning that requires some analytical thinking beyond reading the quote itself. These quotes range from all centuries, genres, and places around the world, but all seem to tie in the concept of being ghostly perfectly to the point in which they are trying to relay.
Here are some of our favorite picks of some various ghostly quotes:
- Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. - Rabindranath Tagore
- I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. - Maggie Smith
- An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. - Charles Dickens
- If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. - Lloyd C. Douglas
- 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
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