“ Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
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“ We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. ”
- Gail Sheehy- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 3.9K
“ There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 3K
“ Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable. ”
- Fawn M. Brodie- Copy
- 157
“ 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 a state of rapture and ecstasy in which the soul comes to the foreground, and the literal concerns of survival and daily preoccupation at least momentarily fade into the background. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ For many people, the Escambia Bay Bridge in Pensacola is the enduring image of the hurricanes. The picture of that broken bridge with the haunting shell of Robert Alvarado's 18-wheeler was seen around the world as a symbol of Florida's devastation and despair. ”
- Jeb Bush- Copy
- 254
“ What moves me about…what's called technique…is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them. ”
- Diane Arbus- Copy
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“ Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the dim of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find. ”
- Kuo His- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night… shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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