Horror Quotes

1347 Horror quotes by 941 unique authors

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange… — Jeanette Winterson
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How… — Roger Zelazny
I have supped full with horrors. — William Shakespeare
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life,… — Azar Nafisi
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle,… — Richard Matheson
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete… — Chris Abani
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. — William S. Burroughs
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites. — Robert Graves
He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for… — Pearl S. Buck
The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who… — Marcel Proust
Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat.… — Kat Richardson
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation… — Winston Churchill
I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror… — C.S. Lewis
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,… — Henry James
I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds. — Theodore Roosevelt
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris… — Sarah Vowell
I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering… — Henry Rollins
Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that… — John Kennedy Toole
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and… — Anne Rice
Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering… — Sophie Scholl
Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this… — Sophie Scholl
At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we… — W G Sebald
That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old… — Dean Koontz
It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different. — Cassandra Clare
America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the… — Nicholas Sparks

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