Quotes About Haunting

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

Such a liberating transformation in and against Lockdown America is "spectral," to use a term from my previous writings.[5] By that I mean that the counter-theatric to state terror makes demands. It is a spectral haunting of the suffering present. It makes demands and cultivates expectations that often make repressive powers tremble. For the repressed, though, this specter is laden with promise and hope. What does this spectral liberation look like?

Wraiths see death in everything. They do not see things in the physical world as they appear, but as they someday will be. A person about to die might appear cadaverous, with hollow eyes and jaundiced skin; a car destined to crash will appear dented in advance. Much of the world seems decayed, a near collapse. Billboards are tattered, roads are potholed, pain is peeling, metal is rusting, buildings are crumpling. To the Restless, much of the world is already dead.

Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.

It does not matter how much we distance ourselves, how far we run - the past always shadows us.

Every time I try to move on with my life, memories of you keep haunting me. Since you've already forgiven me! What can I do to forgive myself?

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul, Comes back with more than the first loveliness-- The all I've lost, the more I never found Haunting her beauty, while for me she weaves Of color, odor, sound, her perfect days.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.

To everyone who enjoys ghost stories

The ghosts, they never go away. They call to you in unexpected moments, their hands lacing with yours and pulling you down paths that lead nowhere.

No me queda sangre, tengo noche en las venas, negra y helada.

It is strange how close the past is, even when you imagine it to be so far away. Strange how it can just jump out of a sentence and hit you. Strange how every object or word can house a ghost.

What you going to do?" she cried. "You break my neck, and the what? You think I won't come back and haunt you? Go ahead! Make me a ghost! See what that gets you.

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

Es algo en lo que ya he pensado: una historia que acaba en tu cabeza sin que tú quieras, o que es depositada ahí por alguien. Tengo un archivo de imágenes horribles, pero no las voy a compartir contigo. ¿Y si metiera una aquí, en medio de un párrafo que estás leyendo por casualidad, como si fuera una mina antipersona? Nunca podrías olvidarla; sería parte de ti para siempre, como un poco de metralla en tu cerebro.

But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

One day Tate was there, a ghost of Tate

Now he knew why people were so scared of ghosts. It was because ghosts were so full of fear themselves.

Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington

Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom

People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

calling the nightmare

he saw her as she was—a hideous phantom of the corruption of the ages.

This was the peculiar and haunting consensus—not that Trump was guilty of all that he was accused of, but that he was guilty of so much else.