~Paranormal Quote Archive~

Here are some famous paranormal quotes I've come across which all have
something to do with the more macabre side of life.
Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

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From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!

~ Scottish Saying

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

~ Emily Dickinson

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Yet call not this long life; but think that I am, by being dead,
immortal; can ghosts die?

~ John Donne

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Now it is the time of night that the graves, all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite iIn the church-way paths to glide.

~ Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Where there is no imagination there is no horror. 

~Arthur Conan Doyle

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O Death, rock me asleep, Bring me to quiet rest,
Let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

~ Anne Bolyn

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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For my part, I have ever believed and do now know, that there are witches.

~ Thomas Browne

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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

~ Robert Bly

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Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

~ C.S. Lewis

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By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

~ William Collins

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Never moon a werewolf.

~ Mike Binder

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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

~ Charles Dickens

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Not everything is a mermaid that dives into the water.

~ Russian Proverb

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A sad tale's best for Winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

~ Shakespeare

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Toil and grow rich, what's that but to lie with a foul witch and after, drained
dry, to be brought to the chamber where lies one long sought with despair.

~ William Butler Yeats

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A savage place! As holy and enchanted as e'er beneath a waning moon was
haunted by woman wailing for her demon lover

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing
in his heart and speaks another.

~ Homer

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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced,
will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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So, so, break off this last lameting kiss, which sucks two souls, and vapours both
away, turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, and let ourselves benight
our happiest day.

~ John Donne

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Farewell happy fields where joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail!

~ John Milton

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Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground.

~ Lord Byron

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint
and curious volume of forgotten lore, while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly
there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do,
and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

~ Dr. Seuss

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All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

~ Peter Pan

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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