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[[folder: Film ]]

->''"Hi. I'm Peter. Where are you from? Originally."''
-->-- '''Peter Venkman''', ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''

->''"They surround us all the time. Most of them can't hurt us. Most don't even want to hurt us. But there are exceptions."''
-->-- '''Dennis''', ''Film/Thir13enGhosts''

->''"[[NotUsingTheZWord Let's cut out all the loaded words]]: ghost, spook, apparition, phantom. This isn't some shade that couldn't get into Heaven because the Pearly Gates were shut. This is something else. Something interesting."''
-->-- '''Peter Brock''', ''Film/TheStoneTape''

->''"When a corpse is left out, the elements wither it, desiccate it, twisting it into a distorted figure that's barely recognizable as a human being. A ghost is an emotion bent out of shape, condemned to repeat itself, time and time again, until it rights the wrong that was done."''
-->-- '''Louise''', ''Film/{{Mama}}''

->''"These souls, who for whatever reason are not at rest, are also not aware that they have passed on. They're not part of consciousness as we know it. They linger in a perpetual dream state, a nightmare from which they cannot awake. Inside the spectral light is salvation, a window to the next plane. They must pass through this membrane where friends are waiting to guide them to new destinies. Carol Anne must help them cross over, and she will only hear her mother's voice."''
-->--'''Tangina''', ''Film/Poltergeist1982''

->''"They have stayed to look back for a glimpse of the very last moments of their lives. But the memories of their own deaths are faces on the wrong side of wet windows, smeared by rain. Impossible to properly see. There is nothing that chains them to the places where their bodies have fallen. They are free to go, but still they confine themselves, held in place by their looking. For those who have stayed, their prison is their never seeing. And left all alone, this is how they rot."''
-->--'''Lily Taylor''', ''Film/IAmThePrettyThingThatLivesInTheHouse''

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[[folder: Literature ]]

->''"Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair. Yet I knew a woman had been there, only a moment before. The cushion was dented where she'd sat, the cloth was still warm, and her scent lingered in the air. If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?"''
-->-- '''Qyburn''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

->''"I was afraid of death. I chose to remain behind. I sometimes wonder whether I oughtn't to have... well, that is neither here nor there.. in fact, ''I'' am [[LiminalBeing neither here nor there]]. I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead."''
-->-- '''Sir Nicholas''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''

->''"In the case of gradual death -- senescence, illness... certain other forms -- transition [of the soul] is automatic and straightforward. The soul is pulled into the [[AfterlifeAntechamber River]] by [[MagiBabble liminal osmosis]]. In cases of apopneumatic shock, where death is sudden and violent, the energy burst can be sufficient to countermand osmotic pressure and leave the soul temporarily isolated. Whence we gain the ghost, and the revenant."''
-->-- '''[[{{Necromancer}} Harrowhark]]''', ''Literature/HarrowTheNinth''

->'''GHOSTS''' come both singly and in battalions. Single Ghosts are met in MANSIONS and out of doors, but very seldom in CASTLES, PALACES, or other places where people might have come by sticky ends. This is because Ghosts on the whole seem to exist not as a result of the way they died but because of unfinished business. This applies particularly to Ghosts in battalions, who will be waiting in a large cemetery or graveyard for someone to call them up to fulfill their vows. Single Ghosts will be feeling vengeful about some legal or magical matter they have had to leave to their descendants. Tourists should be careful of all Ghosts. In Fantasyland, Ghosts can interact with living substance and do real damage. Single Ghosts can hurt or bespell you. The called-up battalions usually fight like living soldiers but are, for obvious reasons, very difficult to kill.
-->--''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland''

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[[folder: Music ]]

->''When I swam alone that night, late summer dusk''\\
''The air so warm and still, the water wide and dark''\\
''Something brushed against me, I splashed and kicked in fright''\\
''Such cold hands upon me, underwater vines''\\
''Were you with me then, my friend? Are you with me now?''
-->-- "[[http://www.handsomefamily.com/Nlyrics.html My Friend]]" by ''Music/TheHandsomeFamily''

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

->''"Echoes are universal, sounding off the bat lips of reality. We visit the intangibles. Some intangibles are less intangible than others. Ripped from life by violent events that their perspectives deems unfair (SPOILER, [[{{Catchphrase}} sweetling]], the universe does not agree), spectres abide timeless wretchedness between worlds. There is no respite in their endless search for warmth. \\
What shackles the dead to the land of the quick varies. Some are spiteful, too mean and malignant to let go. Some died so tragically or quickly that they do not realize they ever perished. Some are less sapient, just human-shaped trauma scars in reality. Some thirst for revenge or closure or stranger passions. And some are held in place by the [[{{Necromancer}} necromantic machinations of the wicked living]]..."''
-->-- '''The Buzzing,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

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[[folder: Web Comics ]]

->'''David:''' ...Something wrong?\\
'''Fall:''' Just... these aren't like [[MonsterOfTheWeek the skinwalkers or the dragon or anything]]. These used to be '''people'''.\\
'''David:''' No.\\
'''David:''' [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman They're just what people left behind.]] No more human than your footprints.
-->-- ''WebComic/TheSwordInterval''

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[[folder: Web Original ]]

->"Anyway, the premise of ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' is that an apocalyptic event has blurred the world of the living and the dead. America is swarming with angry ghosts, and the destruction of the country's infrastructure has made it impossible to stockpile the power pills necessary for VideoGame/PacMan to eat them all."
-->-- ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''

->''"Wait, you are dead? I have not seen such episode.''"
->''"You don't need to die to become dead.''
-->-- '''Captain Bomb''' while possessing Walo, ''Blok Ekipa''

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

->''"Get your hands off our duly elected leader, you odd manifestation of ectoplasmic energy and post-human consciousness!"''
-->-- '''Maddie Fenton''', ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''

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