“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
Stephen King book The Shining
Source: The Shining (1977)
Source: Bag of Bones
“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
Stephen King book The Shining
Source: The Shining (1977)
“I will kill all of you. All the ghosts will come.”
Gavin Free (1988) English filmmaker
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“O lost,
And by the wind grieved,
Ghost,
Come back again.”
Thomas Wolfe book Look Homeward, Angel
Source: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 3
Context: A stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When? O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.
“The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.”
Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer
“From the words and the thickets,
Come the ghosts of his victims,
'We love you!'
'Ah love you!”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
This will not hurt a bit.
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul
“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
“Either ghosts are a metaphor for history, or history is a metaphor for ghosts.”
Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 133