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Quotes About Haunting

que todos bailemos al son de la tonada que ella toca. Corazones sangrantes, y secos huesos en los cementerios, y lágrimas que queman al caer..., todos bailan juntos la misma música que ella ejecuta con esa boca sin risa que posee.
~ Bram Stoker
Tem alguma coisa naquele vento e no nevoeiro. É algo que parece ter o jeito, o som, o gosto e o cheiro da morte.
~ Bram Stoker
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.
~ Bram Stoker
Ans then there was silence, deep awful silence, which chilled me.
~ Bram Stoker
And then I flashed on: When you talk to me you're really talking to yourself, dude. I was still haunted by it.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.
~ Candace Bushnell
Forgotten memories surfaced like the ghosts of the dead (...)
~ Terry Brooks
I asked him what the amulet meant to him, what its meaning was. At first, I thought he wasn't going to answer. But then, in a haunting voice, he said that it represented the dance with death. I was horrified by that. He said the dance with death was the way of the War Wizard.
~ Terry Goodkind
It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you.
~ Theodore Roethke
The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; how I wish he'd go away!" ~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black
~ Karen Marie Moning
I know that traditionally, monsters hang around empty places for no apparent reason—and
~ Karl Schroeder
There is a pale, penetrating loneliness chiselled into every statue. A kind of loneliness made living. It haunts every rock and stone, every sinew of every room. A whispering, blistery loneliness. In a breath's moment, I swear I can hear voices, and at the exact same time, all I can hear is the deafening sound of utter nothingness.
~ Kate Macdonald
Ghosts are both remnants of history and witnesses to it.
~ Katherine Howe
Ghost stories are how we forgive houses for daring to outlive us.
~ Katherine Howe
Did she ever reply?" Bong Cha narrowed her eyes at Sam, deciding if her grandson was trying to trick her into appearing foolish. "Yes, in my mind, she did. I knew your mother so well I could play her part. The same with my own mother and my grandmother and my childhood best friend, Euna, who drowned in the lake by her cousin's house. There are no ghosts, but up here"—she gestured toward her head—"it's a haunted house.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Yes, in my mind, she did. I knew your mother so well I could play her part. The same with my own mother and my grandmother and my childhood best friend, Euna, who drowned in the lake by her cousin's house. There are no ghosts, but up here"—she gestured toward her head—"it's a haunted house.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
There are no ghosts, but up here", she gestured toward her head "it's a haunted house".
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!
~ Gaston Leroux
Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!
~ Gaston Leroux
Usher—threadbare
~ Herman Melville
He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as real as a haunting. --Solar
~ Ian Mcewan
One day I want to write a full-on horror book.
~ Christopher Bollen
I am as true as anything you have ever seen. A dying child, abandoned by the world. And I say this: there is nothing truer. Nothing. Flee from me if you can. I promise I will haunt you. This is my only purpose now, the only one left to me. I am history made alive, holding on but failing. I am everything you would not think of, belly filled and thirst slaked, there in all your comforts surrounded by faces you know and love. But hear me. Heed my warning. History has claws.
~ Steven Erikson
Victory tastes sweetest in the absence of haunting memories, Bult. Savor it.
~ Steven Erikson