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Quotes About Haunting

Esta ciudad es bruja, sabe Usted, Daniel? Se le mete a uno en la piel y le roba el alma sin que uno se dé ni cuenta.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When peace finally came, it smelled of the sort of peace that haunts prisons and cemeteries, a shroud of silence and shame that rots one's soul and never goes away. There were no guiltless hands or innocent looks.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Esta ciudad es bruja, se le mete a uno en la piel y le roba el alma sin que uno se dé ni cuenta
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Los malos recuerdos te persiguen sin necesidad de llevarlos contigo
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The memories we bury under mountains of silence are the ones that never stop haunting
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Los recuerdos que uno entierra en el silencio son los que nunca dejan de perseguirlo
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I ricordi che seppellisci nel silenzio sono quelli che non smettono mai di perseguitarti.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What can I possibly have in common with perpetrators of murder and torture?" It is much more reassuring to believe that they are evil and be done with them.14 We dare not let a glimmer of their humanity in the door, because it might force us to face the haunting truth of cartoonist Walt Kelly's great character Pogo, who famously said: "We have met the enemy and he is us.
~ Carol Tavris
No matter how many women I've kissed over the years, your lips are the ones that still haunt me.
~ Cathryn Fox
His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.
~ Charlaine Harris
Somewhere, somewhere in this house, lurked a problem. For some reason, Jane's legacy wasn't entirely benevolent.
~ Charlaine Harris
I laid my country music aside for quite a while... because bluegrass audiences didn't care to hear it. But it just kept haunting me.
~ Keith Whitley
It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
~ David Guterson
I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film.
~ David Lowery
The knowledge that they existed, those phantoms that forever haunted the corner of the eye, was a form of haunting in itself.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.
~ Kedar Joshi
Just when people were congratulating themselves on having abolished [the belief in demons], it turned out that instead of haunting the attic or old ruins the [demons] were flitting about in the heads of apparently normal Europeans. Tyrannical, obsessive, intoxicating ideas and delusions were abroad everywhere, and people began to believe the most absurd things, just as the possessed do.
~ C.G. Jung
I may remember you, Scarlet," he bellowed, backing up when she grabbed her fork and held it out like a dagger. She'd murdered men with less. Even immortals. "But you haven't haunted me." Motions stiff, he raised his shirt. Amid the cuts, above his heart, was a tattoo of eyes. Dark eyes. Like hers. "Don't you see? You…haven't…haunted…me.
~ Gena Showalter
If I died, I'd expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I'd haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I'd haunt the girl.
~ Gena Showalter
The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.
~ Geoffrey O'Brien
The dead paint a sneering silence on the walls With their white hands.
~ Georg Trakl
'Tis but the wraith of love; yet I linger.
~ George Arnold
But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. (Hanka)
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
become a ghost. They've killed several
~ Isabel Allende