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Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen's kiss was lost in jest, Robin's lost in play, But the kiss in Colin's eyes Haunts me night and day. -- Sara Teasdale
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. -- William Shakespeare
It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. -- David Guterson
Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England. -- Zola Budd
I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her. -- Julie Walters
Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard. -- Katarina Witt
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better. -- Richard Ford
I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do. -- Caroline Leavitt
No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us. -- Nicholas Brendon
Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work. -- Gena Showalter
I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts I go to when in specific cities. -- Alice Temperley
Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. -- Meg White
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. -- William Hazlitt
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. -- David Wilkerson
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
The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me. -- Theo Rossi
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. -- William Dunbar
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring. -- Marisha Pessl
I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can't see anything. That still haunts me, kind of, in my nightmares, but it was worth it, it was fun. -- Leven Rambin
Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions. -- Natasha Trethewey
I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that. -- Amanda Harlech
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. -- Tim Jackson
The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral exhortation, or entertainment. But these fail to speak to the eternal question that haunts all of us: 'How do I know that I'm OK?' We all want to know we are justified. -- Kevin DeYoung
One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
Nothingness haunts Being. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The irrational haunts the metaphysical. -- Annie Dillard
Death haunts everyone and never fails. -- David Gemmell
A peaceful soul haunts the warring mind. -- Iimani David
Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say. -- Mitch Albom
I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves -- Jeff Buckley
She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one. -- Jean Rhys
Nothing haunts the world more than the words of the dead. -- Susan Waterwyk
Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear. -- Shirley Temple
the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair -- John Clare
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty. -- George Eliot
Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still. -- Thomas Moore
That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing. -- Wanda Sykes
A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day. -- Irving Berlin
The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways. -- Jennifer Gilmore
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. -- Jean Cocteau
..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin. -- Sarah Waters
Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. -- Lewis Carroll
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. -- William James
It is not sexuality which haunts society but society which haunts the body's sexuality -- Maurice Godelier
Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent. -- Amanda Ripley
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. -- Alexander Pope
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Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen. -- Tom Hayden
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you. -- Nicholas Sparks
And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past. -- Sarah Doudney
There were hugs. There were words said by each of them. I don't remember what they were. Nothing haunts me more. -- Pittacus Lore
The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly -- Cressida Cowell
To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope. -- Adam Leith Gollner
I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship. -- Barbara Holland
nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day. -- Gerda Lerner
I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. -- John Milton
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win. -- Joni Mitchell
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound. -- George Eliot
[A] great embarrassing factâ?¦ haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. -- David Graeber
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom. -- Naomi Klein
Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell. -- Tobias Smollett
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. -- Oscar Wilde
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There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood. -- Bruce Littlefield
The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude. -- John Clare
Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. -- Meg White
My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of â??vital forceâ?? still haunts many wise heads. -- Ludwig Buchner
Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise. -- Cressida Cowell
Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me. -- James M. Barrie
I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts. -- Bob Kerrey
Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart. -- William Hazlitt
Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness". -- Samuel Laman Blanchard
The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers, His giant wings prevent him from walking. -- Charles Baudelaire
Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers. -- Samuel Rogers
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell. -- Studs Terkel
Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you with a sorrowing precision that comforts even as it haunts. -- Gary Lutz

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