Haunted Quotes
322 quotes by 277 authors
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Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and…
— Martha Brooks
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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
— William Butler Yeats
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Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.
— Sarah J. Maas
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Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
— Erwin McManus
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When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old…
— Unknown Author
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I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced…
— Thomas Merton
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These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time…
— Thomas Paine
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He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts…
— Ivan Turgenev
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Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes…
— A Fine Frenzy
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It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the…
— Richard Yates
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People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also…
— Eric Hoffer
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It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're running round the…
— Steven Moffat
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Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff…
— Michael Chabon
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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…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day that our…
— Ignazio Silone
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The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine…
— Julian Jaynes
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The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed…
— Michael Crichton
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The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned…
— Tahir Shah
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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…
— Cody Linley
Who Wrote These Haunted Quotes
277 authors contributed a total of 322 Haunted Quotes, led by these top contributors: