Horror Quotes · Page 54

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

— Octavia Butler

'American Horror Story' is my home. It's the place I feel the most comfortable.

— Sarah Paulson

I don't know much about horror films despite growing up in the 80s and 90s when the genre was having its golden…

— Jason Johnson

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

— Joan Rivers

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

— Claude Debussy

I'm uncertain, with horror fans, when is disturbing just disturbing, and when is it fun disturbing?

— Jeremy Sisto

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.

— Sophia Bush

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands…

— John Darnielle

I have read H.P. Lovecraft, and I understand why he has influenced so much of horror writing. But because of his history,…

— Misha Green

I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew…

— Jonathan Levine

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make…

— Fede Alvarez

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is…

— Andre Gide

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long…

— Thomas Jefferson

“You’d have been scared too if that big troglodyte had put his hands on you. He smelled like dirty socks and store…

— Aaron Crabill

I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on…

— Taissa Farmiga

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas…

— Damien Hirst

Ambiguity and the horror of possibility play a part in so many of my favorite horror stories: Shirley Jackson's 'We Will Always…

— Paul G. Tremblay

“The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down…

— Anonymous

If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up…

— Jane Swisshelm

“Gabriel did not become Silas all at once. He learned him in fragments— voice, gait, silence, appetite. He learned where to pause…

— Valon G

I've always loved horror, I've always loved collecting, I've always loved weird and macabre things, and I've always loved conventions. So what…

— Kirk Hammett

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by…

— Shirley Jackson

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this…

— Joseph Addison

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who…

— Anonymous

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.

— Maya Angelou

“My friend loves taking a bath all by herself. She never ever gets out.”

— Kōji Suzuki

“The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.”

— M.R. Gott

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

— George Stephen

“Welcome to the house of Gray and Graves where we never lie still and death is only the beginning ...”

— C.M. Stunich

“There is but a gentle stillness inside every cerebral. Tiny waterfalls of blood vessels rushing, becoming lethal.”

— Justin Bienvenue

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

— Herman Melville

“Ben knew that no matter how far you run, you're still yourself when you get there.”

— Brendan Duffy

I don't watch things like Jeepers Creepers or Final Destination 53 ½. I really like more of the psychological thrillers.

— Alexandra Breckenridge

'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

— Maika Monroe

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

— Joe Hill

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

— Wilhelm Steinitz

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

— Sophia Bush

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.

— Cassandra Clare

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

— Rebecca De Mornay