“I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.” WellsCountryMemoriesCitiesDrugMachinesDeterminedGhostTeethKneesSunshineChicagoTelephonesMy Sunshine Author:Conor Oberst
“Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.” KnowsWorldMemoriesMetaphorGhostOur WorldRemembrance Author:Leslie What
“Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?” KnowsLooksChildrenRememberNightHoursChurchMemoriesPrayerWonderLordTearsHolyNormalGloryMiracleShameOur ChildrenMeetingsTrackGenuineGhostClockMidstDiverseRemember WhenHoly GhostTheologicalWatchersSaturatedSigns And WondersChurch Life Author:Leonard Ravenhill
“We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.” LooksPastMemoriesLaughterDiedGhostVainGrayCheerEchoesMirthDepartedOld TimeGood Cheer Author:Agnes Repplier
“Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.” WritingMemoriesGhostPsychological Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.” ChildrenFeelingsParentMemoriesChildhoodStyleGhostJustifySuspectsEmbarrassedHumiliationSubmissionHelplessnessSpankingParenting Styles Author:Selma Fraiberg
“He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.” ThinkingMenWayMeanLightPastFormMemoriesCenturyPhotographyGhostPreservesStaringCaptureTime TravelFounders Author:Carl Sagan
“Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more. It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison. In fact it is us. Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego” WorldFactsMemoriesAliveTruth IsEgoPrisonComplexesGhostPersistenceKnotsGhost World Author:Rajneesh
“Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.” RememberMemoriesPoorGhostTheeSeatsGlobesDistracted Author:William Shakespeare