Horror Quotes · Page 53

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

— Lucy Boynton

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

— Norman Mailer

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

— Jason Blum

5 words that scare the hell out of me in horror movies? Based on a true story.

— Anonymous

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The most interesting thing about horror and thrillers is when there's something deeper going on in the subtext of the film.

— Gareth Evans

“The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.”

— Gary Paulsen

The movie that scared the hell out of me was 'The Blair Witch Project.' I can't remember another movie that scared me…

— Y'lan Noel

“Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory…

— R.D. Ronald

I don't watch things like 'Jeepers Creepers' or 'Final Destination 53.' I really like more of the psychological thrillers, like 'Rosemary's Baby,'…

— Alex Breckenridge

I personally feel like an exorcism movie without God is like a western without hats. Sure, you can do it, but why…

— Ron Livingston

I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face…

— Ingmar Bergman

I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror…

— Jonathan Levine

I don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try…

— Rob Zombie

I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the…

— Stanislaw Ulam

when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather…

— Helen Eustis

I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or…

— Bentley Little

When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red…

— Stephen Spender

H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are…

— Bill Barich

“Evil should not be, Detective Vera. Truly never can be. But in defining it as such, an inherent human bond with negativity…

— John Claude Smith

People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved…

— Christopher Young

“Is it because I'm a girl?" Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head. She looked at him for a moment, her lips trembling, and…

— Stephen King

“Oh incomprehensible pederasts, I shall not heap insults upon your great degradation; I shall not be the one to pour scorn on…

— Comte de Lautréamont

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

— Drew Barrymore

I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.

— Kirk Hammett

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.

— Ken Kesey

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

— Anonymous

I watch every horror film that comes out in theatres. I watch every horror film that's on Netflix.

— Zelda Williams

Slasher movies often have uninteresting, unlikable characters who are just there for you to see their demise.

— Ti West

“The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.”

— Sarah Langan

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

— Sergio Aragones

“I have no use for your body, for within its youth lies a rotten wench already deceased.”

— Keisha Keenleyside

I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.

— Amber Heard

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

— China Mieville

“Be less than what you are so that you can become more.” ― Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice”

— Joseph Delaney

“Scares are just a tresure map for pain you've buried too depp to remember.”

— Jodie Picoult

“We're in high school. If it didn't come from the school cafeteria, we like it.”

— S.K.N. Hammerstone

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

— David Hayter

I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of…

— Mia Goth