Top 511 Haunted Quotes & Sayings

I like haunted things.

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

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

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.

If Connecticut is haunted then New Haven is the weirdest of the towns that is haunted.

I am one of the haunted.

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

What worth was a man who could not be haunted?

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream

Race is something that's always haunted American policing.

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it.

Keep out of the past. It is haunted.

Her mind is a haunted house.

At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

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.

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

I'm definitely not for any haunted houses. They're all scary to me.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.

I love getting scared. I find myself putting myself in situations like haunted houses or going to a haunted hospital for my birthday. Yes, I've actually done that.

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale.

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.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.

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.

The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.

Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

I've been in the presence of a ghost, but I've never actually seen a ghost. I don't know if I actually believe in ghosts, to be honest with you. I don't think they exist, but I think they have more to do with energy. People say if someone died in a place it would be haunted, well people have died everywhere, so the whole entire world is haunted.

She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.

Dreams haunted The Riverworld.

I am haunted by waters.

The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.

To be haunted by my heart is no threat.

Is it true cats wont stay in a house when it's haunted?

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

I go to all the haunted houses that I can get my hands on, and I grew up in Michigan, where there are a lot of back-woodsy haunted attractions.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room. She would always feel me and think of me. I could see that, but there was no longer anything I could do. Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose tot ell it, even to one person at a time.

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.

...the haunted always take refuge in stillness.

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.

I always say I want to look haunted.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.

To live is to be haunted.

What a great unifier getting scared is. Not in an actual threatening, real-world way, but getting scared from horror movies or haunted houses or ghost stories. You laugh because it's a release. People laugh when they're nervous. I laugh so much at a haunted house. It's out of fear, but it's also a wonderful release. Getting scared like that, you feel good, and you feel exhilarated afterwards.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

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.

'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.

One does not remember the winners. One remains haunted by the losers.

I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

I do actually like to visit haunted locations.