The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
Alfred North WhiteheadTags: science shakespeare stars hamlet disappointment math william-shakespeare study mathematics ghost mental molecules grasp
I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
Henry JamesTags: work horror ghost apparitional
It's kinda cool to think about you as a real person, instead of some fetus ghost.
Hillary FrankTags: ghost fetus hillary-frank i-can-t-tell-you
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
Arthur Conan DoyleOnly after you've done the exorcism, then
you'll understand that ghost's also a species.
Tags: life truth secret ghost species exorcism
I have marked in traveling how lonely houses change their expression as you come near, pass, and leave them. Some frown, others smile. The Bible buildings had life of their own and human diseases; the priests cursed or blessed them as men.
Emma Frances DawsonTags: ghost haunted-house
Houses seem to remember,' said he.
'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.
Tags: ghost hauntingted-house
O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!
Ambrose BierceTags: ghost
The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short--he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.
Henry JamesIt had begun to be present to him after the first fortnight, it had broken out with the oddest abruptness, this particular wanton wonderment: it met him there--and this was the image under which he himself judged the matter, or at least, not a little, thrilled and flushed with it--very much as he might have been met by some strange figure, some unexpected occupant, at a turn of one of the dim passages of an empty house. The quaint analogy quite hauntingly remained with him, when he didn't indeed rather improve it by a still intenser form: that of his opening a door behind which he would have made sure of finding nothing, a door into a room shuttered and void, and yet so coming, with a great suppressed start, on some quite erect confronting presence, something planted in the middle of the place and facing him through the dusk.
Henry JamesTags: haunting ghost haunted-house
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