Haunting Quotes
148 Haunting quotes by 135 unique authors
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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do…
— Philip Yancey
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There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.
— Josette Sheeran
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If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a…
— Virginia Woolf
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Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan…
— Janette Turner Hospital
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Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
— Nigel Kneale
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PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics.…
— Kate Wilhelm
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A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.
— Jonathan Maberry
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I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the one youve been looking for…
— Unknown Author
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There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's…
— Wilkie Collins
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To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He…
— Quentin Tarantino
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In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small…
— William Styron
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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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What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates-a goose for a goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband's infidelity- all facets of…
— Janice Y. K. Lee
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Corina Bartra is a very intriguing singer. On Son Zumbon ... the music utilizes tricky rhythms, the leader's haunting voice, and plenty of short solos.…
— Scott Yanow
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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
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I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.'…
— Willow Shields
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The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals
— Bill Milkowski
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Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no…
— Jeff Belanger
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The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with…
— Benjamin Percy
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St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
— Dani Shapiro
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My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence.…
— Joyce Tenneson
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The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity,…
— Charles Dickens
Who Wrote These Haunting Quotes
135 authors contributed a total of 148 Haunting Quotes, led by these top contributors: