Ghosts

Famous quotes containing the word ghosts:

“The ghosts of the villages trail in the sky
Making a new twilight”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

“What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but to be convicted and exposed, to be shamed out of our nonsense of all kinds, and made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)