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Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me. -- Sophie Turner
The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed. -- Siegfried Kracauer
Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again. -- Conrad Aiken
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. -- Alfred Noyes
I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen. -- Peter Sellers
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written. -- Justine Larbalestier
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list. -- Talulah Riley
Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual. -- Bram Stoker
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go. -- Andrew Pyper
If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries. -- Seamus Heaney
The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar. -- Elizabeth McCracken
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. -- Richard Le Gallienne
Life without illusion is a ghostly affair. -- Virginia Woolf
You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows. -- Joni Mitchell
Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life. -- Virginia Woolf
What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep! -- George Sterling
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. -- William Wordsworth
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. -- Jack London
Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark. -- Lucy Christopher
The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. -- Mark Strand
I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres... -- Rob Brown
The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright. -- Maud Hart Lovelace
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ... -- John J. Geddes
Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame. -- Robert Pollok
For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound. -- Eric Russell
I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views -- John Cheever
I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views. -- John Cheever
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. -- Wilkie Collins
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written. -- Justine Larbalestier
Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial. -- Fernando Pessoa
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. -- Albert Einstein
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...there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time. -- Chuck Missler

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