Haunting Quotes

148 Haunting quotes by 135 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me. — Nigel Kneale
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
A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended. — Jonathan Maberry
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals — Bill Milkowski
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
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
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
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. — Dani Shapiro
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
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: