Haunted Quotes

322 Haunted quotes by 277 unique authors

I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to… — Jeff Daniels
A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which… — Tim Cahill
We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us… — Frederick William Robertson
When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer… — Andrew Young
The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses… — Wendell Berry
Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing… — Margot Asquith
Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant… — Nathaniel Branden
Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced. — Gregory Alan Isakov
Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die...… — George Ryan
I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do… — Lemon Andersen
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
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
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
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history. — Erwin McManus
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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