Past Haunts Quotes

#1. The past haunts me. The images are burned into my brain. I'm no good for him because I'm utterly broken. Emily

A.M. Guilliams

#2. My past haunts me, my present screws me, my future scares me. In a nutshell, time physically abuses me

Saurabh Sharma

#3. The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

Cressida Cowell

#4. The past haunts libraries, not only in documents bearing witness to past ages, but through scholarly works, literary reconstructions and images of all kinds.

Jacques Bonnet

#5. Oh, for Thor's sake ... " said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story ... "
"Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.

Cressida Cowell

#6. The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Richard Ford

#7. One question haunts and hurts
Too much, too much to mention:
Was I really seeking good
Or just seeking attention?
Is that all good deeds are
When looked at with an ice-cold eye?

Idina Menzel

#8. His feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.

Sarah Waters

#9. There's a ghost of a dream that you don't even try to shake free off because you're too in love with the way she haunts you.

Kamila Shamsie

#10. But to "settle" the Eastern Question was beyond even Disraeli's power - beyond, it seems, any human power, for it still haunts the world today.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#11. It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

David Guterson

#12. Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever.

Henry Parry Liddon

#13. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

#14. Never mind, he answered; and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, strode off down the gorge and so away into the heart of the mountain to the haunts of the wild beasts. Amongst them all there was none so fierce and so dangerous as himself.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Harold S. Kushner

#16. Nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.

Gerda Lerner

#17. I'm ashamed to say that getting behind the wheel of Dirk's shiny Penismobile was actually a lot of fun.

Emmett Spain

#18. Think about a moment, a little centimeter of time you'd happily exist in forever, if time could be laid out along the spine of a ruler. Maybe it haunts you in that blue inch of half consciousness just before you're fully awake.

Kate Ellison

#19. The first guy who got Aids was a French flight attendant. How you like that Frenchie! You know when I come back and run for office, that may be the one that comes back and haunts me.

Bill Burr

#20. I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

Julie Walters

#21. Why dost thou smile so at me?" inquired Hester, troubled at the expression of his eyes. "Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us? Hast thou enticed me into a bond that will prove the ruin of my soul?"
"Not thy soul," he answered, with another smile. "No, not thine!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#22. Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

Shirley Temple

#23. Her case in particular haunts me. Despite decades of autopsies and crime scenes, I can honestly say I've never encountered the extreme brutality shown in the only existing scene photographs from the Ripper case.

Patricia Cornwell

#24. He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#25. She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.

Jean Rhys

#26. The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

Jennifer Gilmore

#27. The desire for peace fills our hands with purpose during the day; the fear of war haunts our dreams at night.

Cameron Dokey

#28. Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

Katarina Witt

#29. Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#30. What haunts me far more than anything I've ever done are the things I haven't done.

Dan Pearce

#31. The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.

Paul S. Kemp

#32. Their suffering essentially relates to a terrifying and painful past that haunts them.

Onno Van Der Hart

#33. She haunts my dreams.
Shadows of the past.
Ripping my heart down the seams.
No one to blame but me.
I'm a lone wolf now, but I still stare up at the moon, Call her name and wonder if she's looking too ...

Lisa Kessler

#34. What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.

Nicholas Sparks

#35. Somehow, the person who never existed haunts me, worse than the rest of my ghosts.

Victoria Aveyard

#36. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

Meg White

#37. Then she appears, the fantasy which haunts my dreams. The creature who taunts me without having one Goddamn clue of the internal chaos she causes.

Sadie Grubor

#38. The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It inhabits, haunts, parasitizes the allegedly non-literary. It makes 'genre' blink.

Nicholas Royle

#39. And here I sit, writing about him as though he's just a ghost from my past that still haunts me. And I guess that is all he is now. Just some guy I used to know.

Dawn Kurtagich

#40. It is not sexuality which haunts society but society which haunts the body's sexuality

Maurice Godelier

#41. It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

George Eliot

#42. My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher Descartes ripped body loose from mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house.

Walker Percy

#43. Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically ...

Edwidge Danticat

#44. I write about him to make the ghost stories go away. Everything that haunts me.

Abigail George

#45. When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

John Clare

#46. He is gone from mortal haunts: O'Dignam, sun of our morning. Fleet was his foot on the bracken: Patrick of the shaggy brow. Wail, Banba, with your wind: and wail, O ocean, with your whirlwind.

James Joyce

#47. A churel is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child-bed. She haunts lonely roads, her feet are turned backwards on the ankles, and she leads men to torment.

Rudyard Kipling

#48. I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Doug Aitken

#49. The Haunted Wood was a harmless, pretty spruce grove in the field below the orchard. We considered that all our haunts were too commonplace, so we invented this for our own amusement.

L.M. Montgomery

#50. And one there was, a dreamer born,
Who, with a mission to fulfill,
Had left the Muses' haunts to turn
The crank of an opinion-mill,
Making his rustic reed of song
A weapon in the war with wrong, ...
A Tent on the Beach

John Greenleaf Whittier

#51. I hold you in my mouth, in the words that contain you, in the unsaid and the haunts, in all the forms your name.

Gwen Calvo

#52. I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#53. The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.

Terryl L. Givens

#54. There is one thing. One thing that haunts me from page one to page twenty-two. I have never spoken of it. I have never told another person

James Frey

#55. Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

William Dunbar

#56. Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

Zola Budd

#57. Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#58. For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

John Clare

#59. I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Henrik Ibsen

#60. 'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.

Natasha Trethewey

#61. I was sorry for her, as I am for any who are evicted from their haunts by the younger and stronger - always a sad occasion for man or beast.

E.B. White

#62. Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our once-familiar circumstance may never again return. It is a state of mind best indulged infrequently.

Bryant A. Loney