Horrifying Quotes
103 Horrifying quotes by 100 unique authors
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
— Oliver Stone
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My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know,…
— Alan Moore
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Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only…
— C.S. Lewis
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Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are…
— Werner Herzog
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And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
— Clarice Lispector
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Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because…
— Leo Tolstoy
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People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before…
— George Carlin
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She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught…
— Louise Erdrich
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What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
— Kristin Cashore
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There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am…
— Kristin Cashore
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The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness.…
— Margaret Haddix
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Isabelle and Jace had left the topic of dead Shadowhunters behind and had moved on to something Jace apparently found even more horrifying__Isabelle's date with…
— Cassandra Clare
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Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying
— Suzanne Collins
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How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I…
— Kamila Shamsie
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But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you…
— Holly Black
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it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
— Michel Foucault
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Do you think me cruel?†Neith asked. “Oh, yes, I collect the pockets of my enemies.†“Horrifying,†I said. “I didn’t know demons had pockets. 
— Rick Riordan
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How could I possibly keep my cool while getting sweaty with him? What if I screamed out something horrifying, like "I love you?" What if…
— Jeaniene Frost
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