Horrifying Quotes

103 quotes by 100 authors

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get… — Alan Ball
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging… — Geraldine Brooks
As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural… — Nicolas Cage
We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,… — C.S. Lewis
That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much… — K.J. Parker
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where the… — Ban Ki-moon
There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is… — Howard Zinn
The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices… — Joel Stein
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with… — John Carmack
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. — Charles Caleb Colton
People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love… — Marc Maron
The idea that I would ever end up on David Letterman or Jay Leno is horrifying. I am such a freak in comparison to most… — Jared Leto
Nobody panics when things go â€œaccording to planâ€. Even if the plan is horrifying! — Heath Ledger
I guess I came to terms with my demons. Or else I'd be in big trouble, wouldn't I? Horrifying as it was to crack up… — Margot Kidder
When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and… — Robert Englund
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's… — Alain Badiou
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar,… — Carl Sagan
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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