Quotes About Hauntings

#1. Happy Hauntings; and, pleasant dreams!

Peter James

#2. To weep not for the way things had once been but for the way things had been supposed to go and did not. People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

Michael Koryta

#3. Of the first few hauntings I investigated with Lockwood & Co. I intend to say little, in part to protect the identity of the victims, in part because of the gruesome nature of the incidents, but mainly because, in a variety of ingenious ways, we succeeded in messing them all up.

Jonathan Stroud

#4. The graveyard is full of the names of ancient magical families, and this accounts, no doubt, for the stories of hauntings that have dogged the little church beside it for many centuries.' "You and your parents aren't mentioned,

J.K. Rowling

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

Janet Frame

#6. Overhead the sky was melting, the cracked cream color rubbing off in cogs of brine.
The fields far ahead of me in endless pudding, studded here and there with what had been: homes and houses, hair and heirlooms, habits, hallways, hauntings, hope.

Blake Butler

#7. 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.

Arthur Alfred Lynch

#8. One day, I tell myself, the sting will subside and I'll be able to look at a fucking orange and not think of her.
Or maybe it won't. Maybe life is about living with the hauntings.

Tarryn Fisher

#9. Hauntings only repeat what occurred once upon a time.

Anne Rice

#10. Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings.

Loyd Auerbach

#11. It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory.

Anne Rice

#12. I'm just saying it doesn't always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn't make them less real.

Kendare Blake

#13. It wasn't sexy," he said.
"It was a little sexy," Simon said ...
"It wasn't," said Alec.
"I had some feelings," said Simon.

Cassandra Clare

#14. They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

Otto Von Bismarck

#15. She ran her hand over his cock and said, "This is the only thing I ever want to come between us."
His grin couldn't have stretched any further.

Terry Spear

#16. I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really were. But all that changed one rainy August afternoon, when I was surprised by a dead man who had answers.

James Caskey

#17. The popular notion that ghosts are likely to be seen in a graveyard is not borne out by psychical research ... A haunting ghost usually haunts a place that a person lived in or frequented while alive ... Only a gravedigger's ghost would be likely to haunt a graveyard.

John H. Alexander

#18. Lies, Betrayal, and Infidelity are like having a million red ants on you.
It starts off with a sting and ends with bites that eat away at you painfully and slowly until there is no more of you left.

M..

#19. Charleston is an extraordinary place. There is a deep connection between the residents and nearly three hundred and fifty years of history, and those ties between daily life and the distant past are strengthened by the occasional glimpse beyond the veil.

James Caskey

#20. Ya'll smoke to enjoy. I smoke to die.

John Green

#21. I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me ... for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously

Paul Robeson

#22. We act like pagans in a crisis - only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.

Oswald Chambers

#23. Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.

Stephen Jay Gould

#24. There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

Oscar Wilde

#25. And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.

Stephen Cambone