Haunting Quotes

148 Haunting quotes by 135 unique authors

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. — Joseph Conrad
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls… — Algernon Blackwood
Sometimes I remember that I can't always protect those I love." Under his fingers, her hair was soft and silky. She didn't try to tell… — Nalini Singh
We're all of us haunted and haunting. — Chuck Palahniuk
Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by… — Norman Doidge
Bad dreams are ghosts of our fears and worries, haunting us while we sleep. I doubt Valek is in trouble. — Maria V. Snyder
What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was. — Walter de La Mare
Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . .… — Nalini Singh
I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living — John Fante
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. — William Wordsworth
The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost… — Ted Hughes
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I… — Shannon Hale
And I start to say, no. Start to ask him to please just take it off and put it away. Start to explain how it… — Alyson Noel
We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole. — Nalini Singh
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea — J.R.R. Tolkien
Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know… — Lisa Kleypas
It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At… — Thomas Wolfe
You're mine, Angel, and don't you forget it. Your fights are my fights. What if something bad had happened today? It was bad enough when… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to… — Norman Maclean
Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it… — Buster Keaton
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he… — Ann Brashares
Strangely enough, it wasn’t Gabe who was haunting my thoughts, though. That job belonged to a pair of sinfully black eyes that had lost their… — Becca Fitzpatrick

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