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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

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.

Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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

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

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.

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