Haunting Quotes

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 help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.

When I wrote a song, it would have to be from something I was really excited about, or a melody that's been haunting me for weeks, or a message I wanted to convey lyrically. So it would have to start from something I felt very strongly about.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

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. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

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 important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)

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 not satisfy.

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.

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, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

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 over our pasts.

It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.

I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals

All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

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 haunting a spirit.

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 American berserk.

Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you.

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

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 how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune.

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 did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.