Horrifying Quotes
103 Horrifying quotes by 100 unique authors
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The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though…
— Saul Bellow
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Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
— James Gandolfini
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All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin…
— David Cronenberg
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That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
— Charles Durning
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,'…
— Carolina Herrera
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
— Ellen Key
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I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years.…
— Gloria Reuben
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It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
— Joe Rogan
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Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.
— Robert Smith
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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
Who Wrote These Horrifying Quotes
100 authors contributed a total of 103 Horrifying Quotes, led by these top contributors: