William De Morgan Quotes

It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.

So that's the ghost you been running from.

Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.

Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.

I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it's about nothing—just a jumble.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe

There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.