#haunt

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. ↗

— Victoria Secunda

#daughter #few #haunting #hearing #moments

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#guilty #haunts #mind #suspicion

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#awful #bright #bright future #death #deaths

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#had #haunted #i #me #midnight

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#communication #example #for example #haunt #me

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#cut #did #disappointed #final #final cut

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 Kushner

#as far as #concerned #convinced #death #ending

I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for. ↗

— D.J. MacHale

#home #house #life

The wise hero must realise how terrible it will be, when all the wealth of this world lies waste, as now in various places throughout this middle-earth walls stand, blown by the wind covered with frost, the buildings storm-swept. The halls decay, their lords lie deprived of joy, the whole hearth-troop has fallen, proud by the wall. from THE WANDERER, lines 73-80 ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful-writing #destruction #futility #haunting #middle-earth

When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#haunt #love #love