Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

As a child I loved ghost stories.

Rebecca Hall

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Elizabeth: I hardly believe in ghost stories anymore, Captain Barbossa.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

Big in Japan: A Ghost Story

We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.

Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.

The Haunted Baronet And Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts," she murmured.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Brian W. Aldiss

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

The Haunted Baronet And Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70

Can one man's madness be another's real life?

An Itinerant House, And Other Ghost Stories

But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.

Ghostwritten

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

Brian Aldiss

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill.

Big in Japan: A Ghost Story

The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.

Big in Japan: A Ghost Story

Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.

An Itinerant House, And Other Ghost Stories

Places change imperceptibly – in detail, at least – a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly would not go on itself; 'and people too; population shifts – there's an old fellow, sir, they call Death.

The Haunted Baronet And Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.

An Itinerant House, And Other Ghost Stories

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