A Quote by Emily Dickinson

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
American - Poet
December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

Mindy Kaling

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House

Angela Carter

We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't remember. We are haunted by otherness, by the path not taken, by the life unlived. We are haunted by the changing winds and the ebbing tides of history. And even as our own flame burns brightest, we are haunted by the embers of the first dying fire. But mostly, said Lord Jim, we are haunted by ourselves.

Jonathan Evison

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

Tom Robbins

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.

John Malkovich

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

John Malkovich

You don't have to be a house to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson

I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

D. J. MacHale

I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.

John Malkovich

Her mind is a haunted house.

Nadeem Aslam

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

Dick Cavett

There's a book by Anne Rivers Siddons called 'The House Next Door' that I just think is one of the all-time great haunted-house stories. I think that's one of the all-time greatest.

Gillian Flynn

I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.