Ghost Quotes

"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
Jack Henry Abbott

"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."
Brian Aldiss

"I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are."
John Astin

"There are a number of methods that we use to help isolate the source of the activity, sometimes it is paranormal, and sometimes it isn't."
Martina Baker

"O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast."
Anne Boleyn

"Until you experience something, it's one of those things where you have to show me the proof."
Erich Breger

"Is there a God? Is there an afterlife?... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there."
Ryan Buell

"So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but we're here to help people."
Ryan Buell

"No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes."
Thomas Carlyle

"Our husbands have hunting, we have ghost-hunting, And we don't have to kill anything. It's already dead."
Callie Chauvin

"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost."
Charles Caleb Colton

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness"
Joseph Conrad

"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now."
Bill Cosby

"I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost."
John Philpot Curran

"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

"Find a great supportive team that becomes your family, and know that the dead is not to feared, it is living that can change your life."
Julie De Stefano

"We are merely here to research, prove or disprove spirits exist and enjoy our journey."
Julie De Stefano

"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
Guillermo del Toro

"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

"When I'm asked 'Are you afraid of the dark?', my answer is 'No, I'm afraid of what is in the dark.'"
Barry Fitzgerald

"Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life."
Stephen Greenblatt

"All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet."
Jason Hawes

"If your cat's speaking Latin, you might have a problem."
Jason Hawes

"We are firm believers of the paranormal, but we believe over 80 percent of all claims can be disproved."
Jason Hawes

"We once installed a $1.49 trap in a woman's toilet and she never had ghost problems again."
Jason Hawes

"Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent $22.99 on a nice digital clock, and she never saw an apparition again."
Jason Hawes

"The Supernatural is the Natural, just not yet understood."
Elbert Hubbard

"Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like The Grudge, I look in the corners of my room for the next two days."
Vanessa Hudgens

"The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator."
Bob Kane

"I want to know where we go when we leave this life. I'm just looking for answers to what happens when we move on."
Bonnie Knowles

"Remember, they're dead. You're not."
Sara Liskey

"We aren't Ghostbusters. Though one of those backpacks would be cool."
Kate McClure

"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."
H. L. Mencken

"You can't be critical, analytical in your investigation if you don't leave room for doubt. You can't think you know everything."
Claudia Metz

"I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare."
Simon Pegg

"If the dead can't rest in peace, how on Earth can the living?"
Cheri Revai

"Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal."
Brian Robertson

"Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine."
Gilbert Ryle

"You research the area, you set up equipment. Sometimes it's as interesting as watching paint dry."
Marty Seibel

"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone."
Maggie Smith

"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
Alexander Smith

"I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself."
Robert Stack

"Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere."
Pamela Stephenson

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."
Rabindranath Tagore

"Ghost hunting is kind of like fishing, you don't really know if you're going to catch anything or not, and most of the time you're just waiting."
Ron Thorne

"If you have a legitimate haunting or claim of a haunting, calling us is your first step. TV and being famous should be the far front of your mind."
Regan Vacknitz

"People wonder if there is something after this life. We look at that in a scientific way and take an approach based on a lot of on site research and data collection."
Ben Williams

"When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing."
Judith Wright