Top 100 Ghosts Quotes

Stephen King’s ‘Mr. Mercedes’ is not a conventional horror novel. No ghosts, no vampires, no prune-faced escapees of the graveyard.

What’s more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.

There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you’d find these ghost stories: sort of hidden political movies that were supposed to be about ghosts but were about something else.

What’s fun about these pure action games hasn’t really changed since the 8-bit days. Every time I make a new ‘Devil May Cry’ game, I always go back and play one of the ‘Ghouls & Ghosts’ games to remember what it is about those pure action experiences that’s fun.

I remember when I was very young, I had a fever – a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father’s books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.

I find that ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Alien’ actually have a lot in common in that they’re both so naturalistic in the performances. It feels like people you could be hanging out with right now in this room, yet they’re on a spaceship or killing ghosts. But the way they talk is never heightened or otherwordly.

If ‘Queen Of Denmark’ was about my childhood, then ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.

I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then, but my parents would tell me that every night, at the same time, they would hear someone walking up the stairs.

I do believe in ghosts, but I haven’t seen one. I can imagine that you cross over to the other side, some different dimension or whatever, but how do your clothes get there? Ghosts are always wearing clothes.

I don’t think they necessarily do nearly as much haunting as people think. If you believe in the Bible, pretty much part of the deal that goes with it is ghosts.

I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories.

Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.

As I’ve grown older, I have begun to marvel… at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences… Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce.

While it’s cool to think ghosts exist, I don’t want to see one.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

I did ‘Hawa’ to understand what ghosts and the supernatural are all about. I don’t believe in them and wondered how I could essay a part in a project I don’t necessarily understand.

Why are people afraid of ghosts? ‘Ooh, no, I wouldn’t want to see one! I’d be too scared’ – accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice – is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I’d think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I’ve never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.

I’ve talked to ghosts once. For me, it makes sense for them to be real because of physics. In physics, you can’t destroy energy; it can only be conserved.

I’ve been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I’m immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I’m a very hard-headed person.

It’s not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can’t live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn’t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

I don’t care if you believe in ghosts at all. I challenge you to go spend the night walking the halls of Waverly Hills in Kentucky, which is a terrifying place.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

My favorite way of making films – and what has allowed me to get key scenes in ‘Cartel Land’ and ‘City of Ghosts’ – has been when I’ve been able to operate alone.

I don’t believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.

I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like – leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.

I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I’m not afraid of the Taliban.

People want a story – and my horror films have never been about only ghosts and spirits. They have their share of love, hatred, jealousy and complexity of relationships involved.

I like to say I believe in ghosts so I don’t get haunted by one.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

I definitely believe in ghosts.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

Whoever thinks… that the European economy can be competitive without economic cooperation with Russia, whoever thinks that energy security can exist in Europe without the energy that comes from Russia, is chasing ghosts.

My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller – not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication – though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

I don’t see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

I love ghosts – I’m a ghost person and have been most of my life.

I think with ‘Ghosts’ it’s slightly affected my image of what ghosts would be. Before I didn’t really think about it that much.

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

I love reading about ghosts, near-death experiences, astral projection – which is when you leave your body.

I don’t believe in ghosts.

Now about those ghosts. I’m sure they’re here and I’m not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children – and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.

‘Ghosts of Onyx’ is the end of one chapter in the ‘Halo’ saga – and hopefully the start of an entirely new one!

Largely this is a class thing – writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it – being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts – it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can’t just live in my head.

I don’t believe in ghosts.

When I was in hospital, I recorded a ghost. My fave YouTube channel is Huff Paranormal, which is about a guy who talks to ghosts like he’s talking to his neighbours.

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don’t accept it and you’re having a conversation with someone who does, it’s just one of those polite things where you don’t question their belief in ghosts. You just go, ‘Oh, yeah, okay.’ It’s amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

You get these Satanists types that don’t believe in God. OK, so you realize you don’t get Satan if you don’t get God, right? Or atheists that want to believe in ghosts. Wait, wait, wait. You can’t have a two-way go on that. You want to be agnostic, be an atheist, fine. But you don’t bring ghosts along with you.

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

What scares me? I kind of believe in ghosts. I believe they can wander around, so that scares me. But the stuff that really scares me are the catastrophic events like my husband or children or my family being harmed, or something like that.

When we shoot ‘Scrubs’ I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.