Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

By H.L. Mencken

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

By Tom Robbins

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

By Margaret Mitchell

One need not be a chamber to be haunted,

By Emily Dickinson

I’m mad with loneliness and you’ve been haunting me all day

By john j geddes

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude

By john j geddes

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

By Suzanne Collins

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.

By A.C. Benson

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

By Daniel Woodrell

Behind all the surface composure, there seemed to be a great darkness: an urge to test himself, to take risks, to haunt the edges of things.

By Paul Auster

It is only for me, that luminosity she exudes, of ethereal beauty and haunting eminence.

By Saim .A. Cheeda