#haunt

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

#believing #bomb #carry #city #fear

Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#best #everything #hard #haunts #know

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#even #evils #fate #fear #greatest

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. ↗

— David Guterson

#haunts #me #melancholy

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

#believe #devil #haunts #heaviest #imagination

Song after Battle: As the young men went by I was looking for him. It surprises me anew That he has gone. It is something To which I cannot be reconciled. Owls hoot at me. Owls hoot at me. That is what I hear In my life. Wolves howl at me. Wolves howl at me. That is what I hear In my life. -American Indian Songs ↗

— Frances Densmore

#haunting #old-songs #simons-rock #death

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England. ↗

— Zola Budd

#england #favourite #haunts #were

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ↗

— James Douglas

#dark #dawn #garden #good #good idea

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#cults #explore #fundamental #giving #giving up

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you. ↗

— John Fogerty

#coming #destroy #haunt #i #material