ethereal manifestation Quotes

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Having just read the script [Havenhurst] and then add having seen a ghost, I went to Andrew [Erin], and I was, like, "Okay, I have to do this movie. I just have to! I don't know why, but I just have to do it." And I ended up getting the role.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.