Quotes About Haunting

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

I thought the curse of memory is this: Everything is ever present.

Scattered in the dark were the vampires.

Memory wouldn't leave him alone.

Goblin is without a doubt the most potent of the spirits, but there are other ghosts here as well.

Louis seemed an angel of death come to the window.

The dead are so close they can hear us, she thought. "Ah, but you see," said the tall white-haired Ryan, as if he'd read her mind, "in New Orleans, we never really leave them out.

winter days, but distantly. Like very old ghosts.

Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved-over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of themselves behind. The world was haunted by the past.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...

A train full of shadows. Of living ghosts. On a journey to nowhere.

I am a ghost. A wraith of atoms. A shadow.

The voice resonated, a sound like the wind scraping the corners of old buildings and racing down the narrow streets.

Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting's sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.

It sounded more like a chant than a proper song—it did not stray from the few staggered notes that rose and fell with the tenor of his voice. It was beautiful and haunting and it seemed to reach into my chest and twist my heart in a painful vise. I wanted him to stop. But when he stopped, I was sorry.

He had been petrified by what he saw there in Germany. He must have been deeply haunted by his father's role in it. Unspeakably frightened. It had unmoored him.

I could tell you certain things which would convince you, but you would never know a happy day again. You would pass the rest of your life, as I pass mine, a haunted man, a man who has seen hell.

The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.

The house was an empty tank full of grief. Their empty ghosts floated everywhere they were not.

You will die in this house.

I was in love with a ghost.

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.