Quotes About Haunting

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.

Sometimes it's not such a terrible thing to have a ghost in your phone.

Given the nature of the mind, we'll consider the dreams of sleep to be the past, never quite accurate in recollection, always made to serve our desires (except when haunting us for our sins). And the wakeful present . . . well, it, too, holds its dangers.

Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away.

I have never seen a ghost. But yes, I believe because I know too many people who have had experiences. When I lived in Notting Hill, I shared a flat with a mate who was convinced that there was a presence in our house.

Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.

The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.

The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

Like one who, on a lonely road,    Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walks on,    And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend    Doth close behind him tread.*  * Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

Still, it haunted me.

The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land.

Left unattended, even for a few days, houses take on a strange feel. The cold accumulates in the corners. The dark settles down and pools on the furniture. Quiet leaks everywhere. The air sours.

Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them.

Some things don't rest easy, even when they're dead. Their bones cry out from the ground.

the porch was empty. They had gone back inside. It was as if the Overlook had swallowed them.

I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm afraid my dead friends will come to me, and that seeing them will kill me.

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.

I know that if I were a spirit, the last place you'd find me haunting would be my grave, watching my body rot.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

Just one thing worse than the dark, ain't there? And that's what's inside it - the things that call it home ...

Sighing, Lucky shut his eyes. The memory of Terror's spasms haunted him, and he couldn't suppress a shudder. What did the crazed dog see when he went into those convulsions?