Top 220 Haunting Quotes & Sayings

When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

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

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

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.

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

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

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

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.

I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.

Bad dreams are ghosts of our fears and worries, haunting us while we sleep. I doubt Valek is in trouble.

Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream.

I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

I laid my country music aside for quite a while... because bluegrass audiences didn't care to hear it. But it just kept haunting me.

Sometimes a disappearance can be more haunting than an apparition.

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

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.

Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you.

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.

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

For me, 'The Haunting of Hill House' is a series about life after a haunting, what happens after the credits roll in most horror films.

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

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

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.

Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment.

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

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

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

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

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

We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.

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

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

If I had a walk-up song in 2019, it would be 'Baby Shark.' It's haunting. It's mesmerizing. It's catchy.

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

An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word.

There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up something in the same spots in the house as the primary witnesses who reported the haunting. This indicates that something actually exists in the environment at those spots on some level, physical or psychic.

I've never had an actual haunting experience, in the way you might anticipate a ghost in a movie haunting someone, but I do feel presences around me all the time, and I do feel that memories haunt us the way ghosts haunt us or might haunt characters in a film.

In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen are perhaps the richest cultural bond we have. They go on haunting us for years the way our dreams go on haunting us. In a way they are our dreams. The best of them remind us of human truths that would not seem as true without them. They help to remind us that we are all of us humans together.

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

Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.

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.

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

I've always been attracted to the idea of ghosts being memories frozen in time, that a psychological haunting can be just as terrifying as a supernatural one.

Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.

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

Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

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

What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.

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.