Quotes About Haunting

Trekkers at high altitudes sometimes sense a person walking a few paces behind them, just out of sight. Often this person is dead. I never feel this, but once or twice I imagine someone walking a little ahead of me.

America was a ghost in the darkness

Though far away, I will chase you with murky brands and, when chill death has severed soul and body, everywhere my shade shall haunt you.

If there is any power of righteousness in Heaven, you will drink to the dregs the cup of punishment amid sea rocks and as you suffer cry Dido againa and again. Though far, yet I shall be near, haunting you with flames of blackest pitch. And when death's chill has parted my body from its breath, wherever you go my spectre will be there,. You will have your punishment, you villain. And I shall hear, the news will reach me deep in the world of death.

It ended in a transcendental theory which, with her horror of death, allowed her to believe, or say that she believed (for all her scepticism), that since our apparitions, the part of us which appears, are so momentary compared with the other, the unseen part of us, which spreads wide, the unseen might survive, be recovered somehow attached to this person or that, or even haunting certain places, after death. Perhaps - perhaps.

But the room was empty. The fire was still blazing; the chairs, drawn out in a circle, still seemed to hold the skeleton of the party in their empty arms.

People are absolutely haunted by [history]. You can see it at the swap meets.

Why are you pulling away from me now? Why are you acting as if I don't mean anything to you?" He held her gaze, his own haunted and filled with remorse. "Because it isn't fair to you, letting you think I could ever be any kind of mate worthy of you." … "I'd resisted the temptation for a very long time, Melena. And it was easy. Until I found you.

A residual haunting is a haunting that repeats itself over and over again, like a recording that is frozen in time. It is a mere imprint of an event on the environment, in which the spirit who haunts had once existed.

The second type of haunting is what is called an intelligent haunting. In an intelligent haunting, the spirit seems to have a personality of its own and may show emotion. It interacts with the living.

The third type of haunting is an inhuman or demonic haunting. In

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

But the dead, they have ghosts. Ghosts are very useful for haunting. Never forget the dead, Tula. They have their function. They sometimes speak at the most useful or inopportune times.

The Ghastly Ghost at My Gate

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

He stood looking after them... as though he had perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece.

a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost.

when my echoing footsteps brought it suddenly into my mind that there was a dreadful truth in the legend of the Ghost's Walk, that it was I who was to bring calamity upon the stately house and that my warning feet were haunting it even then. Seized with an augmented terror of myself which turned me cold, I ran from myself and everything, retraced the way by which I had come, and never paused until I had gained the lodge-gate, and the park lay sullen and black behind me.

Ben öldükten sonra gün gelir, Richmond'daki ye?il alana bakan o, a??rba?l? eski evde bir hortlak türerse, hiç ku?kusuz bu benim hortla??m olacakt?r. Estella orada oturdu?u sürece benim dirliksiz ruhum gece gündüz dinlemeden o eve nas?l da dadanm??t? bilseniz! Kendim nerede olursam olay?m, ruhum her günün her dakikas?nda o evin içinde, rahat yüzü bilmeyerek dönüyor dola??yordu.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is, that it has no place for ghosts.

rather like a tired ghost after a long and exhausting spell of haunting.

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

James Herbert