Horror Quotes

1347 Horror quotes by 941 unique authors

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of… — Simon Conway Morris
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! — George Eliot
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!… — George Eliot
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world.… — Arthur C. Clarke
I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way. — Josh Hartnett
Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the… — Isaac Asimov
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to… — Adam Arkin
I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and… — Elizabeth Kim
At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war. — Paul Robeson
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it.… — Terri Windling
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects… — Eliphas Levi
Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors… — Maryrose Wood
A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill… — Chellie Pingree
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or… — Georg Brandes
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept.… — Jonathan Frid
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a… — Lance Henriksen
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow… — Hermann Hesse
In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil. — Pope Benedict XVI
If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film. — Jacque Fresco
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous… — Simone Weil
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would… — Nellie Bly
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. — China Mieville
Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims… — Wole Soyinka
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy,… — Herman Melville
People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft. — Alain de Botton

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