Horror Quotes · Page 58

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

— Whitley Strieber

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.”

— Marisha Pessl

“one might think one’s misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality”

— Colson Whitehead

Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.

— Daniel Kaluuya

I personally cannot watch horror films: I am a scaredy cat and scare incredibly easily.

— Perdita Weeks

“Never forget that time is the most valuable thing we can spend, so don't throw it away!”

— Kerry ONeal

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death…

— Eliot Spitzer

“ Fantômas! The sound of that name evoked the worst horrors! Fantômas! This terrorist, this über-criminal who has never shrunk from any…

— Marcel Allain

I try to work with people who you're not used to seeing in scary movies. I think it makes for a more…

— Jason Blum

Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more…

— Stephen King

I definitely think I do things one project at a time and I try not to be too into one thing, but…

— Miles Robbins

The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's…

— Mark Gatiss

“Cold. Foggy cold. Soaking through fabric, biting into the skin, clutching the bones until flesh crawled. There was no moonlight, only orange,…

— Erik Tavares

I loved The Ring and I loved the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. When I was little we tortured ourselves watching Poltergeist…

— Sophia Bush

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with…

— Adelbert von Chamisso

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You…

— Sydney Smith

“Supernatural horror was one of the ways we found that would allow us to live with our double selves. By its employ,…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Working with some real dirt seemed fitting for a woman whose hands felt like they would remain forever filthy. She decided to…

— Ken Goldman --From SINKHOLE

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much…

— Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act…

— Albert Schweitzer

“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried…

— Herman Melville

I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like 'Saw,' I don't like…

— Atticus Shaffer

“Some desires do not arrive violently. They settle quietly into the body until they begin speaking with your own voice.”

— Valon G

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

— Anthony Hopkins

I am really easy to scare, and I dont enjoy watching spooky films.

— Kate Ashfield

The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

— Andrew Pyper

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

— William S. Burroughs

“It wasn’t the violence that trapped him. It was the feeling that he had finally become someone worth noticing.”

— Valon G

“am no stranger to real horrors. But I cannot deny that at this instant I felt a different kind of horror.”

— Barry Grant

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“He thought the suit was changing his life. What it really wanted was his obedience.”

— Valon G

“When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.”

— Cedric Nye

“Of all the problems and complications in my life, I had not expected love to be one of them.”

— Stacie Evans

I am NOT in Scary Movie 5. I have nothing to do with it. I wish it live & light.

— Marlon Wayans

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

— David O. Russell

“A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.”

— Tom Kane