Haunting Quotes

“You haunt my days and dreams.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

“Memory is a haunting.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

— Walter de La Mare

“Insomnia was its own kind of haunting.”

— Angela Flournoy

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Did Bach ever eat pancakes at midnight?”

— Nathan Reese Maher

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

— Franz Kafka

“Is there anything more haunting than the ambitions of youth?”

— Kathleen Tessaro

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

— Nathan Parsons

“What makes us so unique is when TAPS comes in we try to dis-prove a haunting.”

— Jason Hawes

“She’d become her own ghost, haunting her own life.”

— R. Lee Smith

“I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.”

— Melissa Jennings

Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

— Michael Jackson

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

— Karl Marx

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are…

— Anonymous

“All her memories have a fragile nature to them. She needed it to be that way to fool herself and everyone else…

— Chloe Gong

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

— Criss Angel

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

— Dani Shapiro

“Her haunting me. The way a song stays in your head. The way you think life should be. How anything holds your…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most…

— Lucy Walker

“Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?”

— Laura Lam

“I read this in a book about hauntings.” “I thought you said this wouldn’t be scary?” “It’s not really,” Gary said. “But…

— Mark Tufo

“Some ghosts just want a little attention. Some have unfinished business that they need to work through, emotions they have to process.…

— Dani Harper

In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality…

— William Styron

Be sure to ‘notice’ ideas when you have them. Stop. Take the time to consider them seriously. And if your gut tells…

— Tim Westergren

In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of…

— Nikky Finney

I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart, I didn't know why. By the time I made my…

— Sanhita Baruah

Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up…

— Loyd Auerbach

Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never…

— John Clare

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been…

— William Goldman

“He looked sharply towards the pollarded trees. 'Yes, just there,' he said. 'I saw it plainly, and equally plainly I saw it…

— E.F. Benson

Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a…

— Jeff Belanger

“I paid the taxi driver, got out with my suitcase, surveyed my surroundings, and just as I was turning to ask the…

— Roberto Bolaño

“It had begun to be present to him after the first fortnight, it had broken out with the oddest abruptness, this particular…

— Henry James

I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains…

— Dan Chaon

My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost…

— Joyce Tenneson

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

— Nigel Kneale

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

— Miguel Sapochnik