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#1

“Since you came to birth in this world at this time, in this place, and with this particular destiny, it was this indeed that you wanted and required for your own ultimate illumination. That was a great big wonderful thing that you thereupon brought to pass: not the "you" of course, that you now suppose yourself to be, but the "you" that was already there before you were born. You are not now to lose your nerve! Go on through with it and play your own game all the way!”
― Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By

tags: life, oriental, reincarnation

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#2

“When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

tags: after-life, belief, metaphysics, reincarnation, religion, spirituality

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#3

“Loving you feels like my commitment to eternity a long time ago”
― Nicola An, The Universe at Heartbeat

tags: eternal-love, inspirational, love, mystic, past-life, poems, poetry, reincarnation, soulmates, twin-flames

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#4

“You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.
I need you, she replied.
Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: cat, jodi-picoult, my-sister-s-keeper, reincarnation, wit

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#5

“In my next lifetime I wanted to come back as a guy. They seemed to always get the upper hand.”
― Victoria Laurie, Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye

tags: gender-politics, next-life, privilege, reincarnation

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#6

“Could there be grief so unresolved and potent that it continued on, flowed into the next life as powerfully as a birth defect or a birthmark, where still it could not be shaken?”
― Sharon Guskin, The Forgetting Time

tags: grief, reincarnation

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#7

“At the start of the infinite expanse where space kisses time, that's where I loved you first Tiffanee Dee.”
― Simon John Carpio

tags: love, love-quotes, multiple-lives, reincarnation

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#8

“Do you need to be religious to be a good person & develop your connection to the divine?

Probably not.”
― Stefan Tomasi, The Ethereal Road: A Soulitary Tale

tags: meditation, reincarnation, spiritual-empowerment, spiritual-growth, spirituality, spirituality-vs-religion

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#9

“Did you know sometimes it frightens me--
when you say my name and I can't see you?
will you ever learn to materialize before you speak?
impetuous boy, if that's what you really are.
how many centuries since you've climbed a balcony
or do you do this every night with someone else?”
― Emilie Autumn

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#10

“Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many … can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference.”
― James W Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

tags: ancestors, death-and-dying, ghosts, lies-my-teacher-told-me, spirits

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#11

“Ghosts are drawn to the dark underground areas of a house like bats to a cave. Maybe it reminds them of the graves where they belong.”
― J.L. Bryan, The Crawling Darkness

tags: afterlife, basements, death, ghosts, haunted-house, horror, scary, spirits, spooky

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#12

“She stood a moment, staring up at the mansion. If it were haunted, she thought, it was probably by long-lost lovers. There was no way she could fathom anything wicked existing in such a beautiful place.”
― Alistair Cross, The Ghosts of Ravencrest

tags: ghosts, haunted-house, hauntings, mansion

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#13

“It is to my comfort that I entertain stories of ghosts, of discarnate spirits, of angels, of relatives returning to this realm to speak to us... speaking to us in our thoughts and in our dreams. I take comfort in these because no matter how advanced we humans may be... no matter how civilized, how cultured, there will always be some aspect of the spiritual realm that not even the greatest living genius can truly comprehend or explain.”
― Gerald Maclennon, Wrestling with Angels: An Anthology of Prose & Poetry 1962-2016 Revised

tags: angels, clairvoyant, discarnate-spirits, esoterica, ghosts, god, great-mystery, paranormal, spirituality, unknowable

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#14

“Because I don’t like to bother the dead. Usually, when they want to talk, they let me know — but it seems this one wants to be bothered.”
― Rachel Bowdler, A Haunting at Hartwell Hall

tags: ghost-stories, ghosts, paranormal

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#15

“Sometimes I’ll be in my room and recall a terrible memory. I’ll laugh ridiculously into my bed or when I remember an embarrassing moment, I’ll curl up, crinkling myself with blankets I wish could swallow me away into another world. I probably look crazy—some girl reacting to her own head, so I make sure to say what I’m thinking out loud in order for the ghosts to understand. They may have seen a lot, but they’re not mind readers and may appreciate a backstory or two.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

tags: being-yourself, embarrassment, ghosts, humiliation, humor, loneliness, privacy, secrets, the-goodbye-song, weird-quotes

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#16

“This is a gift, Helena, not a curse. You can help
them,” Minerva said.
“I’m afraid of them,” Helena replied, blunt as a butcher’s
knife.
“And they sense that, and they think they can take
your place,” Minerva replied, matching Helena’s tone.”
― Claire L. Smith, Helena

tags: ghosts, gothic-horror, horror

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#17

“What is the sound of one ghost laughing?" she asked forlornly. "Dead silence.”
― Molly MacRae, Spinning in Her Grave

tags: ghosts

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#18

“Dead" and "silent" were two words that should have made perfect sense when used together. They would have for most people I knew. But most people I knew weren't haunted.”
― Molly MacRae, Spinning in Her Grave

tags: ghosts

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#19

“As I approached the one casket, I pulled out an empty bottle I grabbed earlier and held it with my one hand while summoning the spirit from one’s body. Not too long, I have gathered it and captured it in the bottle. And one by one, I did the same procedure for each of the souls that were present. Call me inhumane, but this is how I usually do in the morning—or the evening, but it depends on how busy I am—, and it’s not easy. But this is my job as the soul keeper.”
― Simi Sunny, The Weight of Our Souls

tags: book-lover, bookworm, fantasy, ghosts, goth, paranormal, quote, thriller, trilogy

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#20

“When I place my mouth on your neck I am saying "I love you so much I would swallow you if I could, just so I would neer have to walk away from you"
When I wrap you up in my spiderweb arms at night I am saying "I want you. Even in my dreams I want you. I will want you when we are ghosts"
When I put your fingertips to the veins of my closed eyelids I am saying "I want to be seen in a way there are no words for”
― JOAN TIERNEY, September: A Map

tags: dreams, embrace, ghosts, i-want-to-be-seen, love, mouth-on-your-neck

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#21

“I've never been very good at giving people what they want.”
― Diana Rosengard, Spooked.

tags: best-friends, callie-mccayter, diana-rosengard, ghosts, heroines, love, spooked, spooked-series

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#22

“He dreamed of ghosts, and of the moon and stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

tags: dream, ghosts, moon, stars

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#23

“When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

tags: innocence, lust

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#24

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

tags: the-lady-of-the-haunted-house

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#25

“His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

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#26

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: neurosis

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#27

“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#28

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: life, relatable, truth

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#29

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression

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