Horror Quotes

1347 Horror quotes by 941 unique authors

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors. — John Kennedy Toole
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved… — Karen Joy Fowler
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of… — Oscar Wilde
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when… — Bertolt Brecht
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch… — George Bernard Shaw
I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors. — Horace Greeley
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on… — Dorothy Allison
And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate… — Marquis de Sade
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them. — Charles Bukowski
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. — Paul Bowles
Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the… — Annie Dillard
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is… — C.S. Lewis
EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards… — Siegfried Sassoon
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their… — Thomas Jefferson
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open… — Philip K. Dick
The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen… — David Clement-Davies
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. — Richard Matheson
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend… — Arundhati Roy
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve… — E E Cummings
But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through… — James A. Baldwin
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. — C.S. Lewis
Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's… — Emma Goldman
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is… — Leo Tolstoy

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