Haunted Quotes

322 Haunted quotes by 277 unique authors

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. — Alberto Manguel
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and… — Angela Carter
but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl… — Vladimir Nabokov
But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety… — Daniel Handler
If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my… — Elvis Costello
Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is… — Jack Gilbert
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.… — Richard Brautigan
Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of… — Margaret Mitchell
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days. — John Keats
We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery. — Edward Abbey
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses,… — Edgar Allan Poe
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy… — Barack Obama
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached… — Edgar Allan Poe
The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and… — Jodi Picoult
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my… — Elizabeth Kostova
I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted… — Mitch Albom
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his… — Mircea Eliade
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many… — Charles Dickens
She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one. — Jean Rhys

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