Top 100 Haunt You Quotes

#1. I know and I'm sorry. (Epithymia)
So am I. I'm sorry I ever trusted you with the one thing you knew I loved above all others. You ungrateful bitch! I hope your actions haunt you into eternity. (Apollymi)
(Apollymi blasted her sister to death.)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. If it is true that men have souls that do survive them," he went on, ignoring me, "and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that my ghost will haunt you. I'll haunt you in the flesh, instead.

Susanna Kearsley

#3. Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you."
"I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin.
"And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.

Judith McNaught

#4. Would you put it past Darth Sullivan to figure out a way to haunt you postmortem? He's probably holding staff meetings in the afterworld. Offering up performance evaluations. Issuing dictates.

Chloe Neill

#5. Aw, thanks. And I repeat, if I die, I'm coming back to haunt you." She thought about that a moment. "You do have a tendency to almost get murdered in the most unlikely places." She

Darynda Jones

#6. As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. Don't you love fall?" Stacey asked. "All the little festivals, the changing leaves, kids in Halloween costumes, the dead spewing up out of their graves to haunt the living ...

J.L. Bryan

#8. If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

Chogyam Trungpa

#9. You cloud my vision and haunt my memories. I'm the light at the end of your tunnel. Let it be me.

L.J. Scar

#10. The day will come when we strike you down," she's saying. "Mark my words. We will haunt your nightmares."

I clench my fists and fling an illusion of pain across her body. "I am the nightmare.

Marie Lu

#11. You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.

Audrey Niffenegger

#12. The only way you can rise above your troubles is too force your mind ... to stay in the present moment. The pass will haunt you & the future may worry you but right now at this very moment, you're alive ... so anything is possible!

Timothy Pina

#13. Break a promise to the dead and they'll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they'll haunt you just the same.

Jennifer Donnelly

#14. A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Anatole Broyard

#15. If you do not give 110% in your life, I promise your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. Time is the most valuable asset on Earth, a depreciating asset, don't waste another moment of life where you are not at your fullest potential getting the most out of the time you have in life.

Greg Plitt

#16. He gave her an encouraging smile. "I know horrible memories haunt your dreams, but you're the strongest woman I know. If anyone can do this, it's you. We must kill the snakes in our garden, protect what we love, and let no man stand in our way.

Victoria Roberts

#17. Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.

Seamus Heaney

#18. You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.

Stephanie Zacharek

#19. If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Jodi Picoult

#20. You are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me ...

John Geddes

#21. Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

Ernie J Zelinski

#22. When you become a ghost
feel free to haunt me.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#23. Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

Taylor Swift

#24. Sometimes I think you're still a prisoner. You're not free of this place in your head, Nathan. And you're definitely not free of those people. They haunt you.

Sally Green

#25. If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead.

Benjamin Wood

#26. You must be very specific in your wishes or they'll come back to haunt you.

Erica Jong

#27. ...a person can't tame God.
He's wild as a lion.
He'll haunt you.

Pamela Porter

#28. I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.

Taylor Swift

#29. As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.

John Abercrombie

#30. Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes ... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

Hunter S. Thompson

#31. There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you ...

Gail Simone

#32. Avoid the wrath of the war outside the heart! It keeps raging on.
Hold on to its lullaby, even when the beats are gone.
The same things that both haunt and heal,
are the reason of bliss and the tears,
that you can only feel.

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#33. When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn't ruin your whole day.

Jay Wickre

#34. His eyes - those silver eyes that would probably haunt her for the rest of her life - were bright.
"No matter what I have done, I really do love you, Celaena."
The word hit her like a stone to the head. He'd never said that word to her before. Ever.
A long silence fell between them.

Sarah J. Maas

#35. You haunt me. You alone. You're my fire. I'm your air. Nathaniel to Amelia

Saundra Mitchell

#36. Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

Joel Brown

#37. Honoring delicacy over full disclosure only comes back to haunt you in the end.

Helen Oyeyemi

#38. In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

Lily James

#39. You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!

Kimora Lee Simmons

#40. Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Charles Spurgeon

#41. You haunt me, Mina. Even before I knew you, I felt your absence.

Ava Zavora

#42. But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

Siegfried Sassoon

#43. Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

Darcey Steinke

#44. It's not the endings that will haunt you
But the space where they should lie,
The things that simply faded
Without one final wave goodbye.

Erin Hanson

#45. In life it's not how you fall but how you get up that really counts! Don't let mistakes from your past haunt and hold you back ... always keep moving forward in your life

Timothy Pina

#46. It is all I can do not to confide to the girl closest to me: "If I should die during tea - asphyxiated by my own corset - please do not let them bury me in such a hideous dress or I shall come back to haunt you.

Libba Bray

#47. Money comes and goes, but your inner feelings, your gut feelings, your manhood, your womanhood, whatever, that stays with you. That don't go anywhere. So you either proud of who you are and how you handle situations or you not. If you handle a situation wrong, you, it will haunt you.

Ice Cube

#48. No! It can't be!" She screamed, "Raphael! I need you! Raphael ... !"
But there was no one to answer, and there never would be. She would haunt these halls forever, seeking him.
For she was the Woman in Black.

Lisa Cach

#49. Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

Boris Kodjoe

#50. We all have more than our share of pains and sorrow. Embarrassments and things that haunt us. From that, no one is ever immune, no matter how good or perfect a life you think they live. Shame and hurt spare no one.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#51. Everything will haunt you, all the storms will find you, everything will remind you she's gone.

Jonathan Carroll

#52. Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

George R R Martin

#53. Scully-'
'I screwed up.' Her hands again. 'Damnit, I screwed up.'
'Nope' [Mulder] said ... 'If I was dead, then you would have screwed up.' She saw the grin. 'Then I'd have to haunt you.'
'Mulder that's not funny.'
'But you don't believe in ghosts and goblins ...

Charles Grant

#54. Old Lowji's nasty remark would haunt Farrokh forever: "Immigrants are immigrants all their lives!" Once someone makes such a negative pronouncement, you might refute it but you never forget it; some ideas are so vividly planted, they become visible objects, actual things.

John Irving

#55. One way or the other, come back to me, in a month, or a year, when you're old, a haunt in my dreams, an invasion of my sanity, make a way to come back.

Lila Felix

#56. Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

Will.i.am

#57. It was so addictive ... like a train wreck."
"A train wreck," he repeats, disbelieving.
"You know
you don't really want to see blood and destruction and death because you know it'll haunt you forever, but at the same time you can't look away?

Katie Klein

#58. If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you
less'n he wants to lose it!

Eugene O'Neill

#59. All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.

George Galloway

#60. T know what they say about secrets. I've heard it all. That they can haunt and govern you. That they can poison relationships and divide families. That in the end, only the truth will set you free.

Emily Giffin

#61. It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying, 'We recognise there must be a Palestinian state,' then they rapidly forgot about it. I think history will show that that kind of amnesia will come back to haunt you.

Tom Paulin

#62. Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.

Soseki Natsume

#63. you don't have to be dead to haunt. Parents, songs, exes.

Samantha Hunt

#64. A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life." - Orrin Woodward

Delaine Christine

#65. It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you.

Theodore Roethke

#66. My existence is colorless when I'm not imagining you. You haunt me, Annabelle.

April Brookshire

#67. You'll never get rid of me, either ... No matter which side of the grave we're on. I'll haunt you, chase you all around eternity, whatever it takes, but it's you and me until the stars burn out.

Jeaniene Frost

#68. Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you'd haunt me.

Helen Maryles Shankman

#69. Then the God punished, "I will give the happiest moments at such worst times that you won't be able to feel anything."

Take it as a punishment you want
Because this ritual of mine will always haunt

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#70. Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

Madonna Ciccone

#71. If I die, I am so coming back to haunt you."
"You can even watch me shower.

Jennifer Harlow

#72. When you are corn and roses and at rest
I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost
To haunt the scene where I was happiest
To bend above the thing I loved the most

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#73. And I pray one prayer
I repeat it till my tongue stiffens
Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you
haunt me, then! ... Be with me always
take any form
drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Emily Bronte

#74. But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

Diane Setterfield

#75. Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me. I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you, you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you

Stevie Nicks

#76. You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

Pat Benatar

#77. I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something
and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and ... they come back on television, those movies ... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare!

Lauren Bacall

#78. When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

Sathya Sai Baba

#79. As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.

Brian Klemmer

#80. You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don't haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

David Wong

#81. I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

Warren Ellis

#82. You're a domestic man, David. You feel hundreds of small affections all the time. They haunt every friendly pillow and comfortable chair like household gods. Together they add up to a great love, big enough to ignore this silly man who's hanging around your wife's skirts.

J.G. Ballard

#83. You can test me, haunt me...all you want.

D.P. Joynes

#84. You are brilliant. Low-self-esteem will never haunt you again. Be all that you can be. Know your purpose! Every trial will turn into a victory. You must speak that thing into existence and never give up.

Alisha Broughton

#85. Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of threes or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refugee in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.

Max Porter

#86. Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing.

Rajneesh

#87. When planning misfortune for your friends, " he said, "be careful because it will come back to haunt you. You must always wish others well.

William Kamkwamba

#88. That was how the Son of Sam had ended his letter: Let me haunt you with these words: I'll be back! I'll be back!

Dan Wells

#89. I finally felt ready to put my broken
love to rest. But, you couldn't put something to rest when it kept coming back to haunt you.

Tarryn Fisher

#90. I will always love everything you are, and even the demons that haunt your mind, I will love them as only a queen to her king can, they are the darkest parts of you that no one else has ever seen, but you have shown me,

Jordana Mia Lezamy

#91. You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

John Fogerty

#92. Lies; they always come back to haunt you.

Lisa Renee Jones

#93. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

Mitch Albom

#94. I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.

Thomas Jefferson

#95. I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

John Fogerty

#96. Tell me whom you haunt and I'll tell you who you are.

Andre Breton

#97. At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.

Truman Capote

#98. Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

Jenny Downham

#99. When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

Phillips Brooks

#100. Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)

Steven Heighton

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