Haunted Quotes
322 Haunted quotes by 277 unique authors
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I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.
— Robert Breault
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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.
— John Keats
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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss,…
— Elizabeth Drew
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I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful…
— Stephen Dunn
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Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've…
— Rebecca De Mornay
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to…
— Gary McCord
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When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad.…
— Rose Kennedy
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.
— Bob Hope
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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in…
— Terry Eagleton
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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place…
— Algernon Blackwood
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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
— Julianna Baggott
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I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out…
— Mark Consuelos
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I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same…
— Jennifer Egan
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I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and…
— Dolly Parton
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If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.
— Steve Winwood
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We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail…
— Louis Kronenberger
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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie…
— Ralph Ellison
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Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.
— Hans Arp
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All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself…
— Tennessee Williams
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[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it…
— Eugene O'Neill
Who Wrote These Haunted Quotes
277 authors contributed a total of 322 Haunted Quotes, led by these top contributors: