Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“And the imagination is haunting, but so beautiful that I want to live in that instead.” — Daniel Fights a Hurricane Copy Share Image
That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“...we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.” — Jeffrey J. Kripal Copy Share Image
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot. — John Updike Copy Share Image
For me, 'The Haunting of Hill House' is a series about life after a haunting, what happens after the credits roll in… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Every city is a ghost. New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel beam, each tower… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
If you are involved totally, sex disappears because sex is a safety valve. When you have energy unused, then sex becomes a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A eulogy is a life lived with a loved one or friend condensed into a few moments relating poignant and witty stories… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months)… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me!… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I remember that I can't always protect those I love." Under his fingers, her hair was soft and silky. She didn't… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“I hope when this is done I'll be able to get back into my happy gardening vibe that was so healthy for… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Bad dreams are ghosts of our fears and worries, haunting us while we sleep. I doubt Valek is in trouble. — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“It's spring giving way to summer, balmy air smelling of roses, hot skin meeting the cold shock of the ocean, starry nights… — Sarah McCarry Copy Share Image
