Ghost Dog Quotes

“Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side. ”
― Jim Jarmusch

“I seen ghost dogs,” she asserted. “Them dogs don’t bark. Don’t never know where they be hiding. You be looking at a ghost dog and you blink your eyes and they gone. Ghost dogs always coming around when somebody passes on. Babies, your daddy’s gone changed on account of that ghost dog. Where that dog now? That dog ain’t nowhere around. That dog with your daddy. That dog done took Mr. Sam off somewheres.”
― Terry Kay, To Dance with the White Dog

“He was always described as huge, gaunt, and ghostly white. Always he was running and never veered from his course if he caught the scent of man near-by. Always he appeared suddenly and disappeared as if by magic, and always there was the fear which sent men hurrying home, undesirous of a second glimpse.”
― Walter Alden Dyer, Many Dogs There Be