Best Ghosts Of The Past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Atlantean Road by Stewart Stafford A snake of stones beneath the waters Soldiers march past spectral daughters Phantom travellers To work or home Atlantean lives replay in foam The water drowned out extinct times Of joy and war Of love and crime The divers rapt by sound immemorial Echoes entombed Sweet voices choral The flame of Erasmus and barking sounds Of canine guards and strangers found The road roused from silent sleep To tell explorers how ancients weep © Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”

Source: dead, but dreaming

“They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead.”

Past Death Grief Death Of A Loved One Ghosts Of The Past

Book:Our Share of Night

Source: Our Share of Night

“Mama always told me that secrets come out after sundown. She said that when the darkness of night crept into the corners of my room oily shadows would unfurl themselves from under my bed, while the crows sleeping in the tree outside my window would flutter to the pane’s sharp edge to tap at the cracks in the casement, and the monster in my closet would sigh, opening its eyes before it scratched at the closet door. I’d only have to be quiet and listen.”

Grief Monsters Storytelling Grief And Loss Ghosts Ghosts Of The Past

Book:Pocket Full of Teeth

Source: Pocket Full of Teeth

“From sheer nervousness, or to linger for a moment, I'd urinate at the wayside; scanning the darkness before me, a cherry stump behind me, I'd piss a meticulous semicircle in the ashes at my feet. Crossing this line and looking back as I walked onward, I'd think I saw foggy vapors rise from the place I'd circled with my water, and those vapors took on almost human form, those figures' spectral silhouettes beckoned, and words came, barely audible: Don't forget us! -- They couldn't follow me; their souls were bound; I'd nailed them to the imaginary cross of a nonexistent cherry tree.”

Regret Ghosts Of The Past

Book:The Tidings of the Trees

Source: The Tidings of the Trees

“If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present and your future— staining everything and everyone with their leftover emotional and mental garbage. Humility is the master key that can get you out of all your cages; why do you choose your ego and stay in your prisons?”

Humility Ego Ghosts Of The Past Tying Up Loose Ends

Author:C. JoyBell C.

“I didn't know that I've completely left them all in the past. There's a part of me, wishing and hoping, that she would come back for me, and we would start a new life together, but she didn't.”

Past Hope Broken Heart Torn Wishful Thinking Ghosts Of The Past

Book:One Minute to Midnight

Source: One Minute to Midnight

“- “Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I’ll tell you. They’re secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait.” “Wait for what?” “To be forgotten. My father has been gone for sixty years, but” — he tapped the side of his head — “he’s still here. He never left.”

Reality Dreams Secrets Ghosts Forgotten Memories Ghosts Of The Past

Book:Otherwood

Source: Otherwood

“Christine had gone into the city archives, found them in an old City of Edmonton telephone book. Her family was in a book. Her family and herself were defined by a street, an avenue, and a phone number. This line of type will rearrange itself into a story of ghosts in that place. A story of her ghost. Christine thought of herself as a child, with no idea of the world but all the ideas of the world. Maybe this was her dream self. She wasn't sure anymore.”

Imagery Childhood Memories Beautiful Writing Poetic Fiction Ghosts Of The Past

Book:Broke City

Source: Broke City

“Nothing like being woken up after only a few hours of sleep by workmen wanting to come into your sanctuary to check water lines to put life into perspective. Wine glasses, dishes, yesterday’s ghosts, and a fucking mess everywhere. It’s not all about me, is it? Life moves around out there and sometimes it wants to come in and mess with me when all I want to do is turn over and hide. I am a fragile being, sometimes it takes almost nothing to knock me off my feet and make me tired of living. Sometimes I am so tired that everything is a gargantuan effort. But I'm strong, I always hang on and hold on. My emotions run from being elated and looking up to the sky and seeing all the infinite possibilities, to looking straight into the eyes of Hades. But you know me, I always come through with all my scars, all the love I carry in my heart, and my crooked tiara. Every single diamond in that tiara reflects all the light within me and within you. Indestructible”

Depression Believe In Yourself Strength Through Adversity Infinite Possibilities Indestructible Light Within I Am Strong Ghosts Of The Past Tired Of Living

Author:Riitta Klint

“We Haunt the People We Love We haunt the people that we love, And we become ruins by doing so. Chasing them down every line, No matter if spoken or lived by it. Running in circles, remembering them, While watching ourselves turn into others' ghosts. We haunt and live— And we will outlive.”

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Book:The Willow Song

Source: The Willow Song

“If these were times when the psychic was not looked upon as something surrounded with an unsientific aura - that is to say, a subject about which nothing raitonally concrete can be stated and hence one to be treated with smiles and gentle waggings of the head - my task would be a much easier one. But the harshness of our materialistic age is such that I suppose we cannot be blamed at that which does not conform with the physical laws that drive us on day after day in our blind, itching urge for survival. What can we prove about ghosts and ectoplasm and all the rest of it!”

Tongue In Cheek Ghosts Of The Past Decolonialize Your Mind

Book:My Bones and My Flute

Source: My Bones and My Flute

“The seeds of evil blooms in the fields of negligence.”

Negligence Evil Quotes Seeds Quotes Ghosts Of The Past Worrying About The Future Fearful Thoughts

Book:Svetioničar - Pomračenje

Source: Svetioničar - Pomračenje

“She hadn't seen him in years, but everything that had ever passed between them - love and sex and rage and grief and anger and finally, horribly, indifference - was suddenly present, too. Surrounding them, ghosts. None of it ever goes away.”

Relationships Grief Memory Nostalgia Introspective Past And Present Love And Loss Ghosts Of The Past Emotional Complexity Unresolved Feelings

Book:Lightbreakers

Source: Lightbreakers

“Because most people live either in the past or in the future, it is not correct to say that the current world population is 7.6 billion! World is full of ghosts because if your mind is not in the present time, your turn into a ghost, you become just an image!”

Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes Ghosts Future Quotes Image World Population Ghosts Of The Past Present Time Quotes Past Time

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The sudden quiet made Charlotte's bedroom feel as if it had been plunged underwater. Even the small glass ball ornaments she'd hung by fishing wire from the ceiling gave the impression of air bubbles floating to the water's surface. It was folklore Charlotte had grown up hearing, how these glass spheres called witch balls had been used for centuries to protect homes against ghosts and evil spirits. Her artistic mother used to replicate them out of grapevines, the only thing she had to work with. She would tell customers about their mystical properties at the roadside stand where the camp sold maple syrup and the meager amount of vegetables they managed to grow. Charlotte now collected them, and the symbolism wasn't lost on her. She was trying to protect herself from the ghosts of her past.”

Ghosts Of The Past Witch Balls

Book:Other Birds: A Novel

Source: Other Birds: A Novel

“When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor.”

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Book:Lanark County Connections - Memories Among the Maples

Source: Lanark County Connections - Memories Among the Maples