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The Haunted
«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.»
Author: Harold Kushner
| About:
Death and dying,
Fear,
World
| Keywords:
As Far, concerned, convinced, Death of, ending, haunts, The Fear, The Haunted, The Haunting
«It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.»
Author: James Douglas
| About:
Reverie
| Keywords:
dark, dawn, garden, good idea, haunt, possess, presence, reverie, reveries, shy, shyest, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Haunted, The Haunting, Too Shy
«The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, dear, Are your haunting ghosts tonight»
Author: Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
| Keywords:
ghosts, Ghost in, haunting, letter, sent, tender, The Haunted, The Haunting, The Letter, tonight
«Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.»
Author: Marva Collins
(Educator)
| Keywords:
calling together, ghost, Ghost in, haunted, Have You, meant, might-have-been, They Live, The Haunted, The Haunting
«Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
haunting, Puritanism, somewhere, The Haunted, The Haunting
«But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bodily, concept, echo, everlasting, fades, fame, Great Spirit, haunting, Hearts of, ineffable, leave behind, life eternal, loveliness, magically, mignonette, passed, pervade, pervaded, pervades, rare, real name, real presence, recondite, splendor, splendors, The Haunted, The Haunting, The Sound, touching, vague, vaguer, warmly
«Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
guilty, haunts, suspicion, The Haunted, The Haunting
«Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
admired, at first, at first sight, a hundred, a hundred times, cast, circumstances, degree, expression, favorable, figure, haunted, hundred, meeting, perfection, realizing, sight, sight seeing, The Haunted, The Haunting
«An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
electrified, electrify, electrifying, enchant, enchanted, enchanting, enchantment, enchants, haunting, overwhelmed, speaking, The Haunted, The Haunting
«Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, charms, clip, clipped, clipping, common cold, common touch, gnome, gnomes, haunted, mysteries, rainbow, texture, textures, The Haunted, unweave, woof