Top Ghost Stories Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Ghost Stories quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of M. R. James
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!
- M. R. James
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Image of Wong Kar-wai
There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.
- Wong Kar-wai
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Image of Jane Goldman
I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.
- Jane Goldman
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Image of John Searles
Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.
- John Searles
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Image of Micah Perks
I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.
- Micah Perks
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Image of Mitch Albom
This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
- Mitch Albom
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Image of Virginia Woolf
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?
- Virginia Woolf
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Image of David Foster Wallace
Every love story is a ghost story.
- David Foster Wallace
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Image of Patricia Briggs
Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.
- Patricia Briggs
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Image of Bennett Cerf
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.
- Bennett Cerf
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Image of Immanuel Kant
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.
- Immanuel Kant
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Image of Sugar Ray Leonard
I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.
- Sugar Ray Leonard
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Image of Stephen King
we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.
- Stephen King
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