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Quotes About Haunting

A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism
~ Karl Marx
As I was going up the stair I met a man who wan't there He wasn't there again today Oh I wish he'd go away!
~ William Hughes Mearns
"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.
~ Charles Dickens
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
~ Adam Duritz
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.
~ John Clellon Holmes
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is something haunting in the light of the moon it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul and something of its inconceivable mystery.
~ Joseph Conrad
Memories are reality's ghosts
~ B.J. Neblett
Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
~ Emily Dickinson
of things, mute specters haunting the dramas of seduction
~ William Lashner
I now understand that deja vu is the awareness of the simultaneous occurrence of a nearly identical event in an alternate universe as perceived by another version of yourself. That haunting sense of unreality and the flimsiness of time, of identity itself, is a window through which we glimpse another world.
~ David Czuchlewski
To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.
~ Judith "Jack" Halberstam
If there is something hauntingly beautiful or impressive in your dream, just honor it, respect it, recall it, sense it with your body. More will come.
~ Eugene Gendlin
If I were pressed, I would admit that she was beautiful, in a dead bride sort of way.
~ Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura
I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER
~ Warren Ellis
Many ghosts also walk the halls of the White House and the chambers of Congress. I have encountered quite a few ghosts of former U.S. congressmen who regret that, having been given a rare opportunity to foster positive change in the country, they blew it. Many cling to the earth, guilt-ridden with failure, often haunting their assembly room in the hope of impressing their contemporaries. In
~ James Van Praagh
Yūgen's hallmarks [are] mystery and depth .. . . it is characterized by sadness, unspoken connotations, imagery of a veiled, monochromatic nature, and an atmosphere of haunting beauty.
~ Jane Hirshfield
son más difíciles de ahuyentar los fantasmas que han estado en nuestras habitaciones.
~ Javier Marías
Waking or sleeping, it seemed that she constantly saw that dark body dropping, swift and silent, into the cold, grim sea.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Each night Father fills me with dread When he sits on the foot of my bed; I'd not mind that he speaks In gibbers and squeaks, But for seventeen years he's been dead.
~ Edward Gorey
Yet old Paris was still there, around almost every corner, with her memories of centuries past, and of lives relived. Memories as haunting as an old, half-forgotten tune that, when played again--in another age, in another key, whether on harp or hurdy-gurdy--is still the same. This was her enduring grace.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
~ Alberto Manguel
Look at the world of both film and indie games, and you'll find a startling similarity between the two when it comes to creating the perfect horror story. The tricks storytellers pull to make your blood run cold never change; a creaking floorboard, the eerie feeling of being watched, wandering into a world filled with unspeakable terror.
~ Rob Manuel
Real Super 8 is creepy. If you went into your grandmother's attic and found her Super 8 films and watched them, I don't care what was on them, there would be something a little creepy feeling about it.
~ Scott Derrickson