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Quotes About Haunt

I'd like to go back in time and haunt Robert Louis Stevenson during his years in the South Pacific.
~ Marjorie Liu
Reality denied comes back to haunt.
~ Philip K. Dick
The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
~ Terence McKenna
Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best subject matter for fiction. They do not dramatize well. They are, rather, a by-product, something the reader himself is led to formulate after watching the story unfold. The ideas, the generalizations, ought to be implicit in the selection and arrangement of the people and places and actions. They ought to haunt a piece of fiction as a ghost flits past an attic window after dark.
~ Wallace Stegner
reasons, Edith Stein is the saint who, instead of advancing Jewish-Christian relations, impedes them. Until the Church accomplishes a complete reckoning with a past that reaches far beyond the Holocaust, Edith Stein, instead of blessing the Church, will haunt it.
~ James Carroll
Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.
~ Richard Jefferies
Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail. Art may seem to spring from pain, but perhaps that is because pain serves to focus our attention onto details ... the singular image is what haunts us and becomes art. Even in the midst of pain, this singular image brings delight.
~ Julia Cameron
Money, or the lack of it, haunted him. Oh, not because he had so little. He was, in fact, very wealthy. It was the beggarliness of his companion that caused him the most pain.
~ Karen Hawkins
How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
~ Malcolm Lowry
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.
~ Julie Walters
There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
~ Emily Dickinson
Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.
~ Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.
~ Robert Breault
A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.
~ Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
Hay un verbo inglés, to haunt,, hay un verbo francés, hanter, muy emparentados y más bien intraducibles, que denominan lo que los fantasmas hacen con los lugares y las personas que frecuentan o acechan o revisitan; también, según el conteto, el primero puede signficar encantar, en el sentido feérico de la palabra, en el sentido de encantamiento...
~ Javier Marías
As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires - in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways.
~ Adam Curtis
Being able to play these memories forward with circus music and backward with silly music allows the feelings to become separated from the images and the memories will no longer haunt you. The purpose of memories is to learn from them or to enjoy them or to use them as guides for your behavior, and it doesn't help to relive trauma. Over the years, I've helped many, many people whose lives had been crippled by traumatic experiences to get away from the memories.
~ Richard Bandler
You haunt my days and dreams.
~ Jennifer Elisabeth
She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament: Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
~ William Wordsworth
You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don't haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.
~ David Wong
But what's going to haunt me more in the future- memories or regrets? I honestly do not know.
~ Ally Carter
It's not enough to be dead. He also has to haunt us.
~ Alyssa Brugman
He felt like his whole life was balancing on a razor's edge, and the easy thing, the thing he wanted most, was to jump off with her. But no matter how much he tried to ignore it, no matter how much he wanted to forget, the memory of those words spoken in that fateful dream came back to haunt him, as they so always did: You'll know her by a crown of stars and flowers, and then when you take her to your bed and claim her, you will swear your loyalty to me.
~ Richelle Mead