(65 quotes found)
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind”
William Shakespeare
“You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. 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
“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“Four specters haunt the Poor / Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.”
David Lloyd George
“The gentle, empty, haunting faces of the young prostitutes, in virginal white and vicarage embroidery.”
James Morris
“What are we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was passing me by. I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.”
William Goldman
“If there was a place that was ever haunted, it would be Joliet,”
Wentworth Miller
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpassing / Material place.”
Emily Dickinson
“Flatterers haunt not cottages”
Proverb
