Ghost Stories quotes
45 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it."
"So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point."
"I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight."
"The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift."
"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."
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"we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts."
"Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us."
"Every love story is a ghost story."
"I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that."
"I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories."
"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?"
"The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work."
"I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape."
"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."