Horror Quotes · Page 38

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.

— Terry Pratchett

Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.

— Kirk J. Schneider

“I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.”

— Justin Alcala

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

— Alain de Botton

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

— Charles Bukowski

“And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.”

— Bram Stoker

I think [Doctor Strange] it is - it does tap into a supernatural type of genre that is not horror.

— Kevin Feige

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

— Jason Patric

For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's…

— Kirk Hammett

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did…

— Richard Flanagan

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never…

— Isaac Asimov

Horror movies can really go one way or the other - they can go amazingly or they can go terribly - and…

— Emma Roberts

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

— Guy Sajer

I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and its funny, because those are the kind of…

— Tim Burton

“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a…

— Oscar Wilde

Freddie Kruger, Jason, Michael Myers - they're all our generation. I think the kids wanted some new guys that they could take…

— Leigh Whannell

I think there's over-telling sometimes, in fiction. For instance, I'm a big fan of horror movies, but I could always lose the…

— Evie Wyld

When you're playing the devil, you're playing the ultimate evil. There are no boundaries. In doing a film in the horror genre…

— Ashley Bell

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one…

— Oscar Wilde

Steven Spielberg's name was all over 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' was out the same year, which every single parent took their child to.…

— Pedro Pascal

“Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, poets pass by without having the time…

— Gustave Flaubert

The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one…

— Stephen King

“William sees it all happen again. The pain is not in the event. The subjection to it and his powerless state each…

— M.R. Gott

We've become so postmodern as an audience and we're so familiar with the style of horror movies that they all kind of…

— Ti West

“The sky is stained red with the blood of a thousand dying sacrifices.”

— Kelan Gerriety

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

— Thomas Paine

I'm not a fan of horror. I don't think a proper horror movie has been done since The Shining.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I've only seen a couple horror movies in my lifetime. I don't like the ones that make you scream out in terror.

— Megan Charpentier

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead

Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.

— Clive Barker

If I'm going to direct a horror movie, I'd have to be the one writing it, because I have to make it…

— Pollyanna McIntosh

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

— William Friedkin

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

— Glen Duncan

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

— Dodie Smith

“Do not wander in the deeps, Where the Shriker's shadow creeps. When he rises from beneath, Beware the Sharpness of his teeth.”

— Janet Lee Carey

As a filmmaker, what's cool about horror is you're not really as confined as you are in other genres.

— Ti West

Ive seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.

— Anonymous

“would be the first person to die in a horror movie. I refuse to spend my last few minutes running.”

— Lani Lynn Vale

“Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.”

— Simona Panova

“I thought it was foolish mumbo jumbo when I was alive - then I woke up dead.”

— C.V. Hunt