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

—  Chuck Palahniuk , book Damned

Source: Damned (2011)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If the living are haunted by the dead. Then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes." by Chuck Palahniuk?
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Chuck Palahniuk 555
American novelist, essayist 1962

Related quotes

Jeanette Winterson photo

“What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

The Powerbook (2000)

Chuck Palahniuk photo

“We're all of us haunted and haunting.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

Emily Dickinson photo

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

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Variant: Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Gene Wolfe photo

“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Kevin Malone", p. 355
Nonfiction

Richard Brautigan photo

“I’m haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

“Goul or ghul, in Arabic, signifies any terrifying object which deprives people of the use of their senses; hence it became the appellative of that species of monster which was supposed to haunt forests, cemeteries, and other lonely places, and believed not only to tear in pieces the living, but to dig up and devour the dead.”

Brian McNaughton (1935–2004) US author

Attributed to McNaughton online, this actually is a quote from an English edition of The History of the Caliph Vathek (1786) by William Thomas Beckford, as translated by Samuel Henley.
Misattributed

James Fenimore Cooper photo

“It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience.”

James Fenimore Cooper book The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Ch. 8

James Frazer photo

“The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.”

James Frazer book The Golden Bough

Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 3, Sympathetic Magic (See also: the Noble savage).

St. Vincent (musician) photo

“All my old friends aren't so friendly
And all my old haunts are now haunting me.”

St. Vincent (musician) (1982) American singer-songwriter

"Laughing with a Mouth of Blood"
Actor (2009)
Context: I traded my plot of land for a plane to anywhere
Oh where did you go.
And I can't see the future but I know it's watching me.
All my old friends aren't so friendly
And all my old haunts are now haunting me.

Related topics