1. Home
    2.  › 
  2. Quotes tagged “Ghosts”

Quotes tagged “Ghosts”

“Lydia: Are you the guys hiding out in the attic?

Adam: We're ghosts!

Lydia: What do you look like under there?

Adam: Aren't you scared?

Lydia: I'm not scared of sheets. Are you gross under there? Are you Night of the Living Dead under there? Like all bloody veins and pus?

Adam: Night of the what?

Lydia: Living Dead. It's a movie.

Barbara: You know, if I had seen a ghost at your age I would have been scared out of my wits.”
— Lydia Deetz, Beetlejuice
Tagged: night of the living dead, Ghosts
“Otho: I have a feeling there's something very interesting behind that door.

Delia: [sarcastically] Yeah. Ghosts. The people who died in this house and they want us OUT of here. Well, let's do them a favor...”
— Otho, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Ghosts, haunting
“Barbara: [after Jane did not hear Adam call her] She didn't see you, right?

Adam: Uh-uh.

Barbara: [reading the handbook] In the book: 'Rule Number Two: the living usually won't see the dead.'

Adam: 'Won't' or 'can't'?

Barbara: It just says 'won't'. God, this book is so stupid. I can't understand anything in it. [Adam takes the book and closes it]

Adam: Barb, honey...we're dead. I don't think we have very much to worry about anymore.”
— Barbara Maitland, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Ghosts, zombies
“Charles: I'm not sure this is the right environment for Lydia. Snakes, ghosts...

Delia: Shrimp.”
— Charles Deetz, Beetlejuice
Tagged: environment, Snakes, Ghosts, shrimp
“Adam: How is it that you can see us but nobody else can?

Lydia: Well, I read in that Handbook For The Recently Deceased. It says, 'Live people ignore the strange and unusual.' I, myself, am strange and unusual.

Barbara: You look like a regular girl to me.”
— Adam Maitland, Beetlejuice
Tagged: deceased, Ghosts, strange, unusual
“Ghosts are real. This much I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime. But there are others, others that hold on to an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or love. Those, they never go away.”
— Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak
Tagged: Ghosts, Forever Here, Ghosts Are Real
“Ghosts of the person you used to be are so proud of who you are, they live on inside you applauding you for living on despite your scars.”
— Nikita Gill, Wild Embers
Tagged: Ghosts, Former Selves, The Past
“To not believe is nearly impossible.”
— Art Bell, Art Bell- Ghost To Ghost '94 (remastered)
Tagged: creepy, Paranormal, Belief, Ghosts
“Stan: Aw man, I feel like a total choad.

Cartman: Aw come on, Stan. Maybe that's because you look like a total choad.

Chef: Hello there, Children!

Cartman: Hey, Chef!

Chef: [after looking at Cartman who's dressed like a Klansman] Aah!

Cartman: Whoa, Chef's really scared of ghosts, huh?”
— Stan Marsh, South Park, Season 1: Pinkeye
Tagged: choad, KKK, Klansman, Ghosts, Mistaken Identity
“While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Ghost, People, Ghosts, Life
“Clay Jensen: Vampires, aliens, even werewolves, I get it. I get the motivation, I get the metaphors, right? But, like, zombies? They're just... They're just stupid.

Hannah Baker: So you hate zombies? You're a zombie racist.

Clay Jensen: Just, like, I don't understand 'em. What's their story? They don't want to take over the world, kill their masters, anything interesting. They're not good or evil. They're just hungry... for brains. I mean, like, brains.”
— Clay Jensen, 13 Reasons Why, 13 Reasons Why Season 1: Tape 2, Side B
Tagged: Vampires, Aliens, Ghosts, zombies, Zombie Racist
“Some stars are so far away, it takes eons for their light to get to Earth. By the time the light from some stars gets here, they are already dead. For those stars, we see only their ghosts.”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Cosmos, Season 1: A Sky Full of Ghosts
Tagged: Stars, Earth, Ghosts, Light Years
“I wrote you into a song
and then vowed never to sing.”
— Yena Sharma Purmasir, Ghosts Come Back
Tagged: Ghosts, Poetry, Haunted
“I'm not afraid of ghosts
I'm not afraid of sharks
I'm not afraid of cancer
I am just afraid of snakes!
They really creep me out
Where are their arms and legs?
It's not okay!”
— Gene Belcher, Bob's Burgers, Season 3: It Snakes a Village
Tagged: Ghosts, Sharks, cancer, Snakes, Fear, Phobias
“Wait a second, do dogs even have ghosts?”
— Dean Winchester, Supernatural, Season 7: Defending Your Life
Tagged: Dogs, Ghosts
“So you're saying we've got two super-famous, super-pissed-off ghosts killing their...super-fans?”
— Dean Winchester, Supernatural, Season 5: Fallen Idols
Tagged: Fame, Ghosts, Fans
“Details are everything! You don't want to go fighting ghosts without any health insurance.”
— Dean Winchester, Supernatural, Season 4: It's a Terrible Life
Tagged: Details, Ghosts, Health Insurance
“Why is there no trust among ghosts? They can see right through each other.”
— merjj44, Why is there no trust among ghosts?
Tagged: Trust, Ghosts
“Don't treat her like a ghost and then wonder why she's gone.”
— Abirami P. Kurukkal
Tagged: Ghosts, Gone, H4D-35
“The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: monsters, Ghosts

Featured Posts

50 Paulo Coelho Quotes That Will Soothe Your Aching Soul 24 'Stranger Things' Quotes To Help Hold You Over Until The Second Season Pick Up Lines For Girls 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature 18 Grey's Anatomy Quotes That Were All Too Real For Television 50 Quotes That Prove It Takes Strength To Let Your Vulnerable Side Show

About The Authors

This page was created by our editorial team. Each page is manually curated, researched, collected, and issued by our staff writers. Quotes contained on this page have been double checked for their citations, their accuracy and the impact it will have on our readers.

Kelly Peacock is an accomplished poet and social media expert based in Brooklyn, New York. Kelly has a Bachelor's degree in creative writing from Farieligh Dickinson University and has contributed to many literary and cultural publications. Kelly assists on a wide variety of quote inputting and social media functions for Quote Catalog. Visit her personal website here.

Kendra Syrdal is a writer, editor, partner, and senior publisher for The Thought & Expression Company. Over the last few years she has been personally responsible for writing, editing, and producing over 30+ million pageviews on Thought Catalog.