Haunt Quotes
213 Haunt quotes by 178 unique authors
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The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we…
— Kate Mosse
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In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle…
— Christopher Paolini
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But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy,…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak…
— Jodi Picoult
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Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
— Natalie Goldberg
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.
— Emily Bronte
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The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them.…
— Augusten Burroughs
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I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it…
— Marya Hornbacher
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I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on…
— Lisa Kleypas
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The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.
— Augusten Burroughs
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As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone.
— Laini Taylor
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There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and…
— Neil Gaiman
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When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.
— Sue Grafton
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There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may…
— Washington Irving
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You’ll never get rid of me, either… No matter which side of the grave we’re on. I’ll haunt you, chase you all around eternity, whatever…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind."…
— Christina Baker Kline
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Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
— Alexandra Bracken
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo…
— Henry James
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I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors,…
— Diane Ackerman
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I…
— Isabel Allende
Who Wrote These Haunt Quotes
178 authors contributed a total of 213 Haunt Quotes, led by these top contributors: