35 Hauntingly Eerie Quotes

Words have the power to evoke emotions, stir the imagination, and send shivers down our spines. In literature and popular culture, eerie quotes have become an art form in their own right, encapsulating the haunting beauty and chilling allure of the unknown. Whether whispered from the shadows of a dimly lit corridor or etched into the pages of a forgotten tome, these expressions resonate with a lingering sense of mystery and suspense. Dive into our curated collection of the top 35 hauntingly eerie quotes, and let each word transport you to a realm where the boundaries between reality and the supernatural blur, leaving an unforgettable impression on your mind.

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

2. “That’s the last time I put you in charge of the tequila when we’re making margaritas” - JoAnne Kenrick

3. “We're all of us haunted and haunting.” - Chuck Palahniuk

4. “If we can forgive what has been done to us . . .If we can forgive what we've done to others . . .If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our beingvillians or victims.Only then can we maybe rescue the world.But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we'restill victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer.” - Chuck Palahniuk

5. “So I'm up the ghostie creek without an EMF meter” - JoAnne Kenrick

6. “A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.” - Jack Kerouac

7. “Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream” - Maggie Stiefvater

8. “A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it.” - Stephen M. Irwin

9. “Warrior, when you pledge yourself to the service of a High Priestess, the goal is not to frighten her to death but to protect your lady from death.” - P.C. Cast

10. “There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,committed or endured or suspected; there are worse thingsthan not being able to sleep for thinking about them.It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking inand stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.” - Fleur Adcock

11. “Over the course of my life I've been to lots of places. Shadowed places where things have gone wrong. Sinister places where things still are. I always hate the sunlit towns, full of newly built developments with double-car garages in shades of pale eggshell, surrounded by green lawns and dotted with laughing children. Those towns aren't any less haunted than the others. They're just better liars.” - Kendare Blake

12. “There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.” - Edgar Allan Poe

13. “So you're gone and i'm hauntedAnd i bet you are just fineDid i make it that easy to walkRight in and out of my life” - Fine Frenzy

14. “If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.” - Chuck Palahniuk

15. “To live is to be haunted.” - Philip K. Dick

16. “Since you can't touch me, you made something that could, didn't you?" I said."Yes."My world slowed and I closed my eyes. "I am going yo give you my heart noe," I whispered. "Please don't break it again.” - Jessica Verday

17. “Yaicha is named after a songby some group from the last century called thePousette-Dart Band.Something about a girl, a candle in the falling rain shining amidst the pain.I kind of surprise myselfwhen I can picture Yaicha as that candle.My father named Yaicha after the "haunting melody."I wonder if he ever listenedto the lyrics.” - Thalia Chaltas

18. “Are you a pirate?” - Meg Cabot

19. “Jesse, this is Craig. Craig, Jesse. You two should get along. Jesse's dead,too.” - Meg Cabot

20. “Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench!” - Meg Cabot

21. “Well, hi, CeeCee," I said. "Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking?""Oh, please," CeeCee said. "Why? Because we might interrupt you and your precious Jesse?"Jesse, upon hearing this, raised his eyebrows. Way up.” - Meg Cabot

22. “Seth: "I write of love in my novels, write of it well, if my critics and fans are to be believed, but in all of my years at that typewriter, I never found the combination of words that would convey how I felt about you. You were my everything.” - Lissa Bryan

23. “Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I’ll wake up with sweat drenching my chest and think it’s the blood and muck I was covered in that night.” - Shannon A Thompson

24. “Cuando nos morimos, esas son las historias que siguen en nuestro labios. Las historias que solamente les contamos a desconocidos, en algún lugar íntimo de la celda acolchada de la medianoche. Esas historias importantes que nos pasamos años ensayando mentalmente pero que nunca contamos. Esas historias son fantasmas, que traen a la gente de vuelta de entre los muertos. Solamente un momento. De visita. Cada historia es un fantasma.” - Chuck Palahniuk

25. “Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.” - Maya Panika

26. “When Olivier had been taken away Gamache had sat back down and stared at the sack. what could be worse than Chaos, Despair, War?What would even the Mountain flee from? Gamache had given it a lot of thought.What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And Gamache thought he had the answer.Regret. Regret for things said, for things done, and not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.Finally, when he was alone, the Chief Inspector had opened the sack and looking inside had realize he'd been wrong. The worst thing of all wasn't regret.” - Louise Penny

27. “This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.” - J.D. Salinger

28. “I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe.It was haunted.The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.” - D.J. MacHale

29. “I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn't escape them.” - Susie Clevenger

30. “In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasn’t moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make sure it was real. The TV fuzzed grey and white and black and I had a lump in my throat that I couldn’t swallow away. “Rory” I whispered. Clawing out gently beneath the duvet cover, reaching for his hand. But I couldn’t find it. And he didn’t answer.” - Kate Chisman

31. “The scratching came from the attic. At night, when Rory turned out the light I would lie awake and wait for it to skit, skit, skit lightly across the floorboards above our heads and down behind the water pipes.” - Kate Chisman

32. “The chandelier was wearing on its rubber support and the crack at the side of the ceiling hold was getting bigger. “One day that’s going to fall on us and spear you through the heart,” he said. I turned to kiss him on the shoulder and closed my eyes.” - Kate Chisman

33. “The diamonds glinted under the glare of the chandelier and they looked like a thousand spider eyes” - Kate Chisman

34. “These were the things we would never notice were missing.” - Kate Chisman

35. “I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood.” - Kate Chisman