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Quotes tagged “Ghosts”

“[singing] I will start anew / I will make amends / and I will make quite certain / that the story ends / on a note of hope / on a strong amen / and I'll thank the world / and remember when / I was able to begin again!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: Ghosts, Amends, Starting Over
“Ebenezer Scrooge: And be good enough to leave me alone during business hours.

Nephew Fred: Seven o'clock on Christmas Eve? That's not business hours, that's drudgery for the sake of it, and an insult to all men of goodwill.

Bob Cratchit: Here, here!

Nephew Fred: [surprised] Thank you, Bob Cratchit.

Ebenezer Scrooge: [slowly turns to Cratchit] Another word from you, Cratchit, and you will celebrate Christmas by losing your position.

Bob Cratchit: Yes, Sir. Sorry, Mr. Scrooge.

Ebenezer Scrooge: [turning back to Fred] You're quite a powerful speaker, Sir. I wonder you don't go into politics. You're fool enough.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: Ghosts, Goodwill, Christmas Eve, Politics
“Ebenezer Scrooge: [watching Fezziwig's Christmas party] What a marvelous man...

Ghost of Christmas Past: What's so marvelous? He's merely spent a few pounds of your mortal money. Three or four, perhaps. What is that to be deserving of so much praise?

Ebenezer Scrooge: You don't understand. He had the power to make us happy or unhappy, to make our work a pleasure or a burden. It's nothing to do with money!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: Ghosts, Marvelous, Power, Happy, Money, Unhappy
“Ebenezer Scrooge: Why do you walk the earth? Why'd you come to persecute me? And what is that great chain you wear?

Jacob Marley's Ghost: I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it, link by link and yard by yard, while on Earth, and now I will never be rid of it, any more than you will ever be rid of yours!

Ebenezer Scrooge: [shocked] Mine?

Jacob Marley's Ghost: It was as heavy and long as this seven Christmases ago. It's a terrible, ponderous chain you are making, Scrooge!

Ebenezer Scrooge: Tell me more, Marley, but speak comfort to me!

Jacob Marley's Ghost: I have none to give.

Ebenezer Scrooge: None?

Jacob Marley's Ghost: Comfort comes from other sources, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is given by other ministers than I to other kinds of men than you. When I lived, my spirit, like yours, never walked beyond the narrow limits of our counting house.

Ebenezer Scrooge: But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.

Jacob Marley's Ghost: Mankind should be our business, Ebenezer, but we seldom attend to it... as you shall see.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge
Tagged: Comfort, Chains, Ghosts
“Molly: What if the ghosts of all those kids are still in this room watching us right now?

Gert: OK, Molls, no more Ghostbumps for you.”
— Molly Hernandez, Marvel's Runaways, Season 1: Kingdom
Tagged: Ghosts, scary, creepy, Ghostbumps, kids, Snarky
“Places aren't haunted. People are haunted.”
— Melinda Gordon, Ghost Whisperer, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Haunted, Ghosts, People, Deep, scary, Sad, Lonely, hurt
“You're like a ghost in chains.”
— Linda, Togetherness, Season 1: Ghost in Chains
Tagged: Examples of Similes, Ghosts
“I've seen a lot of ghosts. Just not the way you think.”
— Steven Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Ghosts, Memory
“Malcolm Crowe: Do you know what 'Yo no quiero morir' means? It's Spanish. It means 'I don't want to die.' What do you think these ghosts want when they talk to you? I want you to think about it, Cole. I want you to think about it really carefully.

Cole Sear: Just help.

Malcolm Crowe: That's right. That's what I think, too. They just want help, even the scary ones. I think I might know a way to make them go away.

Cole Sear: How?

Malcolm Crowe: Listen to them.

Cole Sear: What if they don't want help? What if they're just angry and they just want to hurt somebody?

Malcolm Crowe: I don't think that's the way it works.

Cole Sear: How do you know for sure?”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Ghosts, i don't want to die
“Cole Sear: You know the accident up there?

Lynn Sear: Yeah.

Cole Sear: Someone got hurt.

Lynn Sear: They did?

Cole Sear: A lady. She died.

Lynn Sear: Oh, my god. What, you can see her?

Cole Sear: Yes.

Lynn Sear: Where is she?

Cole Sear: Standing next to my window.

Lynn Sear: Cole, you're scaring me.

Cole Sear: They scare me too, sometimes.

Lynn Sear: They?

Cole Sear: Ghosts.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Accidents, Ghosts
“There's natural phenomena that we understand and there's natural phenomena that we don't. Primitive humans used to die of fright during an eclipse. They had no idea what it was. The eye of an angry god. An evil spirit. Nothing supernatural about it, though. Once we understood what it was, well, it was just natural.”
— Steven Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Supernatural, Ghosts, What We Don't Understand
“I think spirits might be attracted to me.”
— Troy Vance, An Ohio Teen Says He Took a Photo of a Ghost Boy in His Truck
Tagged: Ghosts, spirits
“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

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