James Herbert Quotes

“To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.”

“The popular notion that ghosts are likely to be seen in a graveyard is not borne out by psychical research... A haunting ghost usually haunts a place that a person lived in or frequented while alive... Only a gravedigger's ghost would be likely to haunt a graveyard.”

“It was haunted”

“The main work of haunting is done by the living”

“I didn't sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren't here, haunting with their memory.”

“My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.”

“I will give you anything to say you want to stay, you want me too.Say you'll never die, you'll always haunt me.I want to know I belong to youSay you'll haunt me...”

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

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

“St. Augustine is not only the oldest continuously-occupied European settlement on the American continent, it is also perhaps the most haunted city in the United States. Seemingly every spot in this city has some ghostly hidden history, right below the surface. Just by strolling through the historic streets you can hear the whispers of the long-dead.”