Supernatural Quotes

“The relater slipped off Zam’s head like mellifluous honey and slid onto the floor deflated and seemingly sated.”
― Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors

“I think we are all psychotic, the children of the Underworld.”
― Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors

“Over the years, The Cult of the Clan’s finest hunters had tried and failed to capture a changeling and Bonnyman was determined he would not make the same mistakes as his peers. Their stories littered the pages of the Cult’s history like garbage discarded in the street.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

“Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.”
― William A. Dembski

“Slink sniffed the air. “There’s a hint of demon in the air,” he said, “and something else. Dead flesh that continues to walk. That can mean only one thing. The Cult have been here.”
― Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors

“Bonnyman quickly walked over to the head and picked it up by the hair. He held it in front of his face. ‘Tell me whose orders you follow,’ he said in a gentle voice that Zam didn’t think he possessed.
The wraith looked past Bonnyman, staring at its body twitching on the floor. ‘Never your orders,’ it gasped, before closing its eyes forever.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

“Soon she is lost in another dimension where images prevail and silence rules.  A large, black eye flutters open, staring at Kate from deep within the oceanic darkness of its mysterious pupil.  Falling into the center of this cyclopean abyss, she comes face to face with something completely unexpected.  A tiny infant, seemingly asleep, is suspended in a cocoon of rotating beads of white light above a luminous white stone altar.”
― Kathy Martone, Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery

“Pain as old as time itself, threaded with memories of heartache old and new, are translated into wails of anguish, the sonnet of her life.”
― Kathy Martone, Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery

“As Kate laments the loss of the singularly most profound love of her life, she watches the black ravens gather in a circle around her, dragging their wings in ritualized fashion as they dance to the beat of ancient drums, pounding out the story of ageless lamentation.”
― Kathy Martone, Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery

“Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world. One's very instincts rebel at the admission of such maddening possibility. For, once the initial step is made into the supernatural, there is no turning back, no knowing where the strange road leads except that it is quite unknown and quite terrible. ("Slaughter House")”
― Richard Matheson, Collected Stories, Vol. 2

“Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!
Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!”
― Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

“Something like panic struck at Hurlow. Moffat's calm confession of fear withdrew the prop upon which he had leaned. Down there, among the motionless shadows, lurked invisible things, things that were nameless, shapeless and malignant; things which could see without being seen. One of the long lost terrors of childhood returned to him, and like a child he put his hand into Moffat's.”
― A.M. Burrage

“Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill”
― L.P. Hartley

“And in any case...there are no more supernatural noises nowadays...”
― Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Tomorrow's Eve

“I think locality exercises strange influence over some minds. The peaceful meadow-scenery holds no lurking horrors in its bosom, but in the lonesome moorlands, full of curiously molded boulders, grotesque fancies must assail one there. Creatures seem to come, odd and ill-defined as their surroundings. As a child I had a peculiar horror of those tall, odd-shaped boulders, with seeming faces, featureless, it is true, but sometimes strangely resembling humans and animals. I believe the spinney may be haunted by something of this nature, terrible as the trees. ("The Haunted Spinney")”
― Elliott O'Donnell

“Divine favor is the supernatural agent that positions us for "unfair" blessings, abundance, and provision.”
― T.D. Jakes Ministries, Favor Ain't Fair: 90 Promises for Experiencing God's Blessing, Abundance, and Provision

“Spring-Heeled Jack Is In The Lane by Stewart Stafford

Go indoors, children, before dark falls,
A fiend comes hideous and inhumane,
Tell your mother not to answer the door,
For Spring-Heeled Jack is in the lane.

Is it spectre, beast or demon?
A trick of light to fool the brain?
Blue flames spew from hellish maw,
Spring-Heeled Jack growls in the lane.

No one can unsee its monstrous face,
Nor its claws of steel that bloodstain,
Its haunting cackle freezes victims,
Spring-Heeled Jack leaps from the lane.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Falsehood fights truth with all its power, but the power of truth is supernatural and will nullify everything they do.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“There is nothing supernatural about visions - or to be more accurate, contrary to traditional belief, it's not messages from some extraterrestrial domain. Visions are indeed messages from a mysterious realm alright, but like the everyday realm of human perception, the transcendental realm as well is creation of brain chemicals. I won't go into details here, as I already did that in my early days. One of my earliest works, Autobiography of God, contains a detailed analytical account of the neurobiology of transcendental experiences. However, the question is not whether there is an explanation, the question is, is it worth explaining! Because, while sometimes the lack of explanation facilitates superstition, some things are better left unexplained - such as, love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Life is a circle it travels around,
Leaving yourself where you're nowhere to be found,
In loneliness and horror and ever so more,
Life is a circle for you to explore.”
― Paula Marucci, Fruit Fly Intelligence: Awareness of our Interconnections with All That Is Leads to an Extraordinary Life!

“Spirit channels through everything!”
― Paula Marucci, Fruit Fly Intelligence: Awareness of our Interconnections with All That Is Leads to an Extraordinary Life!

“The Fey's Captive by Stewart Stafford

Sprite music in moonlit sway,
Her song turned azaleas grey,
A haunting lilt that carried far;
Charmed ear to shimmering star.

Hornpipe down, melody went on,
Lovelight flickered, then it shone,
Claimed me then on yearly shore,
Dragged me behind the fairy door.

An enchanted hostage kept there,
Gossamer glowed her flaxen hair,
Made me pledge to be her slave,
This regal man, reduced to knave.

A year and a day passed, comet swift,
My sentence over, her parting gift,
Conditions met by kith and kin,
Woke to bedroom light with a grin.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford

“Only the superstitious deny the supernatural.”
― J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, The Book of the SubGenius

“Sudden death can cause unrest. If the spirit died with a grudge, that could cause problems for the living.”
― Byrd Nash, Ghost Talker

“The dead wanting life again wasn’t a new idea. It’s part of why they possess the living.”
― Byrd Nash, Ghost Talker

“That's why angels prefer to come here on faint ancient nights when the moon is at half-strength and the cats howl their hunger. The venom plaguing us seems miles away.”
― Scott C. Holstad

“She read the route over and over, hoping it would suddenly change, and she wouldn’t have to make that stop. But every time she blinked her eyes, wishing it would be different, it stared back at her through the screen.
Those eight letters and two syllables stirred up painful memories of the life she’d spent years running away from.
Curesall.”
― Eve Tara, Broken Down Ghost Town

“Moving slowly and silently as she always had when entering this house, Lynn made her way into the living room. Or what she’d remembered as the living room. As she looked around, the only things left were the cracked and peeling paint and the blackout curtains made obsolete by boarding the property. Lynn closed her eyes and took a deep breath of the dusty air to settle her feelings.”
― Eve Tara, Broken Down Ghost Town

“She saw the ghosts of her family home around her moving around in the dust and the light. To her right, a dining room full of people celebrating. In front of her, a figure in the kitchen seemed to be preparing meals. The old piano to her left was occupied by someone singing and playing. She shook her head and blinked fast as everything faded away. Lynn wondered if it was all in her head or if ghosts were really in the house. She blinked again, and their silhouettes disappeared.”
― Eve Tara, Broken Down Ghost Town

“Why are you running? You know he won’t be there. You KNOW he won’t be there. If you forgot, check your pocket. Pull out your phone and look at the last message in your inbox. What does it say? Oh yes, it says ‘I won’t be there’."

"Fantastic timing for you to become the voice of reason, Shadow," I pant. "Are you trying to make me change my mind?"

"Not at all, this is a thrill for me. I just didn’t know there would be running involved. Can I change your mind about that?”
― Aura Biru, We Are Everyone