Haunted Houses Quotes

• Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson (1986). “Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet”, George Braziller

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• I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

  Robert Breault

  Dark, People, House

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• A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

  James M. Barrie

  Sarcastic, Halloween, Night

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.201, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

  Dean Koontz

  House, Architecture, Ghost

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

  Emily Dickinson

  Halloween, House, Brain

  c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).

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• When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers.

  Cody Linley

  Stars, Confused, Ghouls

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• I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

  Eli Roth

  Years, House, Rounds

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• All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Men, House, Died

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.35, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Believe, Character

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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• In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, House, Lovely

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.37, Bantam

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• If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Ifs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.102, Random House

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Halloween

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Atheist, House, Irritating

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• I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

  Dick Cavett

  House, Wanted

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• She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House

  Angela Carter

  Eye, House, Doe

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• I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.

  John Malkovich

  Men, House, Quality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

  John Malkovich

  House, Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floats bright and wet From trees that are their own sunset, Spring, summer, autumn I come here, And what is there to fear? And yet I never lose the feeling That someone else behind is stealing Or else in front has disappeared; Though nothing I have seen or heard, Makes me still walk beneath these boughs With cautious step as in a haunted house.

  Andrew Young

  Summer, Spring, Sunset

  Andrew Young (1963). “Quiet as moss: thirty-six poems”

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• It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're running round the rings of an alien world and then a haunted house. There's new Cybermen, new Ice Warriors and a never before attempted journey to the centre of the TARDIS. And in the finale, the Doctor's greatest secret will at last be revealed! If this wasn't already our most exciting year it would be anyway!

  Steven Moffat

  Running, Warrior, Journey

  "‘Doctor Who’ Premiere: Poster Of The Doctor And New Companion". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Her mind is a haunted house.

  Nadeem Aslam

  House, Mind

  Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

  Eminem

  Kids, Woe Is Me, Self

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• I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.

  Richard Brautigan

  House, Rooms, Ghost

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• To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.

  John Green

  Thinking, House, Warfare

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.226, A&C Black

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• I love Halloween! I love it so much that I used to work at a haunted house every year.

  Daniella Monet

  Halloween, Years, House

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• I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.

  Andre Dirrell

  Halloween, Holiday, Winter

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