Quotes tagged ‘haunting’

“I would NOT participate in one under any circumstances. Not even if my wife died and a medium said she had a message from my wife. I cannot conceive of circumstances under which I would participate in that sort of thing or stay overnight in a house that was reputed to be haunted or any of those thin…”

— Stephen King, web.archive.org

“In 500 years of dignified haunting, I have never been subject to such impudence!”

— george zateslo, Sir Simon de Canterville, John Gielgud, imdb.com

“You cannot run from this—it will follow you. It may lay dormant for years. Something may trigger it to become more active and it may over time reach out to communicate with you.”

— Oren Peli, The Psychic, Mark Fredrichs, imdb.com

“Micah: Has this shit happened in the daytime before? Katie: It's getting worse.”

— Oren Peli, Micah, Micah Sloat, imdb.com

“I said don't mess with that stuff, because it scared me and what do you do? You go out and get the best looking fucking Ouija board I've ever seen and put it in the middle of our living room? Explain that to me.”

— Oren Peli, Katie, Katie Featherston, imdb.com

“The first time I saw one I was 10 years old. It was my mother's. Black cholera had taken her. So Father ordered a closed casket, asked me not to look. There were to be no parting kisses. No goodbyes. No last words. That is, until the night she came back.”

— Matthew Robbins, Guillermo Del Toro, Edith Cushing, Mia Wasikowska, imdb.com

“Juno: [as Adam and Barbara come back to the afterlife] You two have really screwed up! I received word that you allowed yourselves to be photographed, and you let Betelgeuse out and didn't put him back, and you let Otho get hold of the handbook! Adam: Handbook? When? Juno: [rolls her eyes] Never tru…”

— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Juno, Sylvia Sidney, imdb.com

“Otho: I have a feeling there's something very interesting behind that door. Delia: [sarcastically] Yeah. Ghosts. The people who died in this house and they want us OUT of here. Well, let's do them a favor...”

— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Otho, Glenn Shadix, imdb.com

“It’s not always our actions, but their aftermath that haunt us.”

— Jorge Zamacona, Owen Hall, Blair Underwood, imdb.com

“Because you are uncertain about yourself, the world reflects that uncertainty back to you and the reflection begins to haunt you. Your uncertainty is haunting you, but it is merely your reflection in the mirror.”

— Chogyam Trungpa, amazon.com

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am cond…”

— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com

“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“I am haunted by you and the haunting is stealing the words from my heart and the clarity from my mind.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com

“Any big hotels have got scandals. Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go.”

— Stephen King, amazon.com