Horror Quotes · Page 49

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

— Jason Patric

“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

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Colson Whitehead

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

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But…

— Ernest Hemingway

We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save…

— Pope John XXIII

I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements... There was something that happened to me. It was…

— Mena Suvari

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the…

— Robertson Davies

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on…

— David Arquette

Usually horror in your personal life can translate into some good music. Sometimes. Sometimes it can be really maudlin and boring, and…

— Bob Schneider

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail…

— Paul G. Tremblay

“It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and darkness…

— K.J. Wignall

I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

“Her jagged pearl teeth dug into my shoulder. Their cold numbed the pain, as trickles of hot blood dripped into the crux…

— Sam Richard

A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all…

— Arnold Beichman

“Let's say it once and for all: Poe and Lovecraft - not to mention a Bruno Schulz or a Franz Kafka -…

— Thomas Ligotti

At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving…

— John Hughes

A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you…

— Fede Alvarez

“Michael Delaney used to be fat. Not puppy-padding fat—bursting-frankfurts-in-a-boiling-pot fat. He remembered gym class and swimming lessons. All of the thin guys…

— Aaron Dries

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

— Kelan Gerriety

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

— Dodie Smith

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

— Glen Duncan

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

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

— Clive Barker

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

— William Friedkin

Good luck dragging me into a horror movie! I get so scared. It's an overactive imagination or something.

— Natalia Dyer

Proof that you watch to many horror movies. When you Turn off the downstairs lights and run upstairs so no one kills…

— Kollkid

I'm a very funny man, so funny comes natural. And if you want to create horror, you need to be funny or…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

— Fanny Burney

I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in…

— Leigh Whannell

I love horror movies, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn't make them.

— Jason Blum

“A conspiratorial biter, finding no rival nearby, relentlessly gnawed at their own forearm. (From: The Jar of Dragonflies)”

— Delenda Carthago

The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.

— Andre Holland

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” ― Edgar Allan Poe”

— Penny Reid

I normally stay away from horror films; I tend to do light and happy roles.

— Megan M. Duffy