#haunted

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#jack-kerouac #memory #vision #writer #writing

To live is to be haunted. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#life #live #life

I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#creepy #fear #fearful #ghost #ghosts

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

#illusions #images #our #place #primarily

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene. ↗

— Bo Derek

#attacked #being #crazy #cry #driven

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#dance #gun #haunted #hill #house

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#beauty

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#always #brutality #european #haunted #heard

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#constantly #could #drudgery #else #haunted

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#angels #being #complicated #demons #edge