Haunting Quotes

• Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

  H. L. Mencken

  God, Being Happy, Cynical

  A Mencken Chrestomathy ch. 30 (1949)

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• Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

  King Hussein I

  Beauty, Country, Yesterday

  "The Arab World", Arab Information Center, p. 30, 1965.

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• 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

  Halloween, Moon, Night

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Halloween

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

  Franz Kafka

  Irresistible

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• Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

  Mitch Albom

  Fearless, Unspoken Words, Good Advice

  Twitter post from Aug 05, 2013

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• There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

  Joseph Conrad

  Halloween, Moon, Light

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.230, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dream, Pain, Healing

  "The Powerbook". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2000.

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• There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Gold, Debt, Treasure

  "No Man Knows My History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, Chapter 2, 1945.

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• Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

  River Phoenix

  Halloween, Acting, Mask

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Night, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.214, Virginia Woolf

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• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Europe, Communist Manifesto

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1908). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”

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• This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Ideas, Becoming, Settling

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• When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers.

  Cody Linley

  Stars, Confused, Ghouls

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• Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

  Nigel Kneale

  Consideration

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• I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

  William Peter Blatty

  House, Hills

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

  Nathan Parsons

  Kids, Stories, Legends

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• Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Past, Sake, Ghost

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• Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

  Robert Browning

  Best Effort, Curse, Incomplete

  Robert Browning (1989). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book”

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• We're all of us haunted and haunting.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.6, Random House

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• Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sea, Forever, Shadow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

  James Thurber

  Real, Heart, Men

  "Collecting Himself". Book by James Thurber, 1989.

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• What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

  Louise Bernikow

  People, Boards, Poverty

  Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins

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• The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.

  Edna Lewis

  Children, Growing Up, Coffee

  Edna Lewis (2012). “The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.24, Knopf

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• That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Heart, Sadness, Years

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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