Haunting Quotes

148 Haunting quotes by 135 unique authors

What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle… — Alfred Kazin
I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else… — Regina Spektor
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all. — Vincent D'Onofrio
Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls. — Michael Jackson
Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why… — Waylon Jennings
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale… — Philip James Bailey
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human… — Northrop Frye
Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day.… — Karen Thompson Walker
Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the… — Ron Franscell
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of… — King Hussein I
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. — Karl Marx
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H. L. Mencken
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting… — Joyce Carol Oates
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. — Jerry Saltz
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun… — Jim Morrison
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those… — Truman Capote
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will. — William S. Burroughs
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart… — Evelyn Waugh
It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your… — Sarah Dessen
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite… — William Goldman
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things… — Donald Miller
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear… — Mark Twain
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes… — Neil Gaiman

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