Haunting quotes
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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.
-- Ann Brashares -
From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.
-- Anna Louise Strong -
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.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch -
The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals
-- Bill Milkowski -
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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.
-- Brendon Urie -
A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.
-- Candace Bushnell -
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.
-- Charles Lamb -
I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me...
-- Criss Angel -
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Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.
-- Dani Shapiro -
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
-- Dani Shapiro -
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.
-- Daniel Breaker -
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.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
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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 is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
-- Fawn M. Brodie -
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.
-- Hugo Chavez -
I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.
-- Janet Frame -
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.
-- Jerry Saltz -
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A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.
-- Jonathan Maberry -
There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
-- Joseph Conrad -
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.
-- Karen Thompson Walker -
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
-- Karl Marx -
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The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.
-- Laura Miller -
What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.
-- Louise Bernikow -
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.
-- Lucy Walker -
Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . . . It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.
-- Nalini Singh -
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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 -
That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.
-- Nellie L. McClung -
Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
-- Nigel Kneale -
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)
-- Norman Doidge -
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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.
-- Norman Maclean -
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
-- Robert Browning -
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.
-- Slavoj Žižek -
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 of the sea that is haunting me.
-- Ted Hughes -
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What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
-- Walter de La Mare -
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.
-- Wilkie Collins -
I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
-- William Peter Blatty -
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
-- William S. Burroughs -
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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 towns have when they are situated on the sea
-- William Styron -
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.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'
-- Willow Shields -
'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.
-- Jake Epstein -
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
-- Nathan Parsons -
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
-- Vincent D'Onofrio -
The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals
-- Bill Milkowski -
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.
-- Ron Franscell -
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
-- Wade Davis -
