Horror Quotes

1347 Horror quotes by 941 unique authors

At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think… — Clive Barker
It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange… — Robert E. Howard
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human… — Muhammad Yunus
The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen… — Cormac McCarthy
You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead. — Graham Greene
… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut,… — Anne Rice
The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy… — Emily Bronte
I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I… — Anais Nin
I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe
I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it,… — Alan Moore
What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us… — Albert Schweitzer
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. — Richard Price
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They… — Katherine Dunn
There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror-… — Clark Ashton Smith
We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with… — Terry Pratchett
Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room… — Sara Gruen
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail. — John Milton
Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often. — Michael Ende
Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show…… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. — Toni Morrison
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have… — Connie Willis
He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to… — Terry Pratchett
I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison… — Augusten Burroughs

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