Horror Quotes

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...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to… — Jeanette Winterson
Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of… — Andre Gide
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life. — Jean Giraudoux
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery… — Robertson Davies
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It… — Louis C. K.
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by… — Ayn Rand
People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a… — Robert Bloch
When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors. — Eugene O'Neill
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other… — Alfred Nobel
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and… — Florence Nightingale
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no… — Anne Rice
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It… — G I Gurdjieff
We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the… — Oswald Chambers
Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror… — Clive Barker
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. — Edward Gibbon
I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it;… — Dennis Weaver
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a… — Lewis Carroll
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. — Charles Baudelaire

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