Haunted Quotes
322 Haunted quotes by 277 unique authors
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He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion,…
— John Robert Seeley
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A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would move him to…
— Toni Morrison
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The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful…
— David Foster Wallace
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I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to…
— Michael Ondaatje
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The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson…
— Jim Shepard
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It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
— James F. Cooper
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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
— Brian K. Vaughan
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Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see…
— Beth Richardson Gutcheon
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Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with…
— Joseph Addison
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The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat…
— William Shakespeare
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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted…
— Charles Dickens
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For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about our…
— Robert D. Hare
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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
— William Blake
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Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to…
— Andre Malraux
Who Wrote These Haunted Quotes
277 authors contributed a total of 322 Haunted Quotes, led by these top contributors: