Haunting quotes
50 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting."
"To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world."
"A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject."
"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism."
"Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction."
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"The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves."
"The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun."
"Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will."
"If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool."
"You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible."
"Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!"
"I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place."
"From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed."
"It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune."
"The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets."
"With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody."
