Horror Quotes

1347 Horror quotes by 941 unique authors

We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.… — Nhat Hanh
The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist… — Joseph Heller
Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst. — Joe Hill
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.… — Shirley Jackson
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. — Clive Barker
I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre,… — H P Lovecraft
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened.… — Arundhati Roy
We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager… — James St. James
she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to… — Paulo Coelho
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about… — Oscar Wilde
This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew… — Milan Kundera
The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out… — J D Salinger
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to… — Alice Sebold
There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny… — Stephen King
And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and… — Rachel Caine
Horror is the removal of masks. — Robert Bloch
One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people. — Diane Setterfield
But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards… — Jack Kerouac
I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead. — Katherine Mansfield
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card
Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. — Alice Sebold
Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and… — Tasha Tudor
I am your number one fan. — Stephen King

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