Haunting Quotes

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

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone.

It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

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

There is something haunting in the light of the moon;

it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

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

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

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.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane.

It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.

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.

It was through crowdsourcing, it was through the kindness that strangers were showing me, that I could uncover parts of my past that were haunting me.

When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers.

I've been thinking a lot about space.

It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness.

Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

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

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

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