True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Every one talks of it, and scarcely any one has seen it

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

Lovers are
Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot
Of their misdeeds.

All love stories are the same.

The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

Every great love starts with a great story...

Love can be a very frightening thing.”
“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Oh, love that lives its life with laughter Or love that lives its life with tears Can die — but love that is never spoken Goes like a ghost through the winding years. . .

What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

The perfect ghost story is the story of Possession," he said, "and that is hypnotism from beyond the grave. This is possible since hypnotism is by the will, and the will is immortal. A number of notable men have been possessed, and all of their lives seem to fit a pattern: the inconsequential early years, the hiatus when they stood where Faust stood, and the decision. And then the rise to power and influence and almost universal honor after they have made the deal. But it is not themselves, it is the devils within them that gain these things. They are the possessed men who do much of the running of the world, and theirs is the most frightening story that can be imagined. But those who watch the great men do not know that they are shells inhabited by ghosts.

Love, like ghosts, is often spoken of, but rarely seen.

There are ghosts and there is love, And both are present here,
To those who listen, this tale will tell
The truth of love and if it's near.

Love can be a very frightening thing.’ ‘That is why most great love stories are tragedies.