Quotes About Haunting

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.

You might forget the day you saw a dead body in the street, but the death of Hamlet haunts you forever.

The people faded away, the arches, the vaulted roof vanished. I raised my seared eyes to the fathomless glare; and I saw the black stars hanging in the heavens: and the wet winds from the Lake of Hali chilled my face. (In The Court of the Dragon)

There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting; It's luring me on as of old; Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting So much as just finding the gold. It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder, It's the forests where silence has lease; It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder, It's the stillness that fills me with peace.

the spoons jumped off the rack. And a couple of times I've heard a man call my name when no one else was here

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die: Autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous," Will said. "There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.

When the Bennington was built, in 1872, it was said that the architect, who had descended from a long line of witches, fashioned the building on ancient occult principles so that it would always be a sort of magnet for the otherworldly. So as I said, don't pay any mind to the odd sounds or sights you might experience. It's just the Bennington, dear.

Can I tell you a secret? I don't like ghosts very much. They are terrible people.

Do you think some places just hold on to evil? That you can't paint or wash it away? It lives on, no matter what you build on top

The apartment was now a ghost:

Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night and become aware, for the first time, of the whispering that had haunted all her sleeps.

The light was frozen, dead, a ghost.

I drank to the imminent of His Coming, he repeated, with a sincere attempt to feel that the coming was imminent; but the eyebrow continued to haunt him, and the Coming, as far as he was concerned, was horribly remote.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

I prayed she would haunt me forever. Just because she was dead, she had no right to desert me.

Can we always really look forward, as everyone endlessly advises us to do? Or do we have to hold on to certain key vestiges of our past- as painful, as terrible as they might be- as a way of understanding that there are certain things in life that change us so radically that they stay with us forever? Can we really close the door on that which still haunts us?

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

ghosts of the past still clutch at you in the present

The sum of his life was a unique melody, hauntingly beautiful and powerful.

Nobody likes to go near that chateau after dark.

Because nothing but annihilation would stop him wanting Serena. Even then, he'd probably come back and haunt her.

I have gone out, a possessed witch,haunting the black air, braver at night.