Quotes About Haunting

He looked like he came out of nightmare alley.

Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

If ever a face meant death, if looks could kill, we saw it at that moment.

It was like the first time I saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward, the cadaver's head--or what there was left of it--floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast... and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadaver's head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.

The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back.

But he'd resisted them, and the more he did, the harsher their attacks became. During the worst of it, he'd begged for death. Death is too small a price for your sins, they'd whispered. They wanted him alive for the final showdown. For the day Haven Valley was destroyed from within. Jamie didn't understand what it meant, but their haunting words filled him with a deeper fear than he'd ever known.

Estaba lugubre como cuando la sombra de Helene viene a habitarlo. A deshabitarlo

Some of our hearts are more Gothic and take to haunting.

Who are you?" "I'm the stuff of your nightmares... Actually, I'm the stuff your nightmares wake up screaming about

You have a book like 'The Shining,' where the hotel is scary - but scarier because it's the haunted house of Jack Torrance's heart.

Our reflections walked through them like ghosts that couldn't play.

Añada sin embargo a ese fantasma familiar perturbaciones violentas que le han permitido instalarse. Los fantasmas construyen su nido en las fracturas.

Los fantasmas construyen su nido en las fracturas.

Existía un secreto en Bly… quizá un familiar inmencionable recluido en un insospechado confinamiento?

An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. ~ Henry Louis Mencken

Diane Cluck is part of the anti-folk movement in New York. She's got a really haunting voice, and she usually sings in the pentatonic scale.

Our pasts haunt us all.I regaled my beautiful audience of one with the tale of my life, not so much for entertainment, but for bold, barefaced, honest truth.

The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together.

Peta reaches up to his forehead, delicately removes a flake of paint from the basketball pole, and then pulls him to her chest, her palm to his cheek, and this, her, it's home, and it's not haunted, not even a little.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.

Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'

The Castle—a man haunted by the feeling that he was losing himself or wandering into a strange country, farther than he had ever wandered before, a country so strange that not even the air had anything in common with his native air, where one might die of strangeness, and yet whose enchantment was such that one could only go on and lose oneself further…