Christian Morgenstern Quotes

Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.

He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

So that's the ghost you been running from.

Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.

It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.

A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.

There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.

Hazel frowned. "Why that one?" "You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked. "Ghost?" Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

° “Not a ghost, but an angel.

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.

I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it my new toys. It's just an old spirit stuck between the worlds, right? What's to be scared of?"" ~Vic

Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.