. . . you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.
We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes. . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.
Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.
'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.
I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.
I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.
To be haunted by my heart is no threat.
Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, "Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.
I always say I want to look haunted.
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.
I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.
A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.
From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.
I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.
"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.
