It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since th

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. – Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Ghosts
category

But it is presumptuous to scrutinize too far into these matters: Ghosts have undoubtedly forms and customs peculiar to themselves. – Francis Grose, “Superstitions: A Ghost,” A Provincial Glossary, with a Collectio

Category:
Ghosts

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. – Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

Category:
Ghosts

An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. – Attributed to Dickens in Many Thoughts of Many Minds by Henry Southgate, 1862

Category:
Ghosts

He stood looking after them… as though he had perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece. – Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

Category:
Ghosts

Random Quotes

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, yknow, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldnt even hear my music. – Sarah Hughes

Category:
Dreams

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. – Winston Churchill

Category:
power

I trained to be a priest – started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind. – Johnny Vegas

Category:
Birthday

Life gives nothing to man without labor. – Horace

Category:
Labor