Horror Quotes

1347 Horror quotes by 941 unique authors

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly. — Tessa Dare
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. — Stanley Kubrick
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality. — Alfred Hitchcock
Val, I'm on Bourbon—” “I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. Don‟t… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.” Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and… — Rachel Caine
A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured. Warren—who had once, a long time ago, been a cowboy—snickered and… — Patricia Briggs
For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know… — Stephen King
In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you… — Galileo Galilei
I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of… — William Shakespeare
The look she gave me reminded me of when is was seven and I'd proudly informed out housekeeper that I'd donated half my clothing to… — Kelley Armstrong
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain… — Cornelia Funke
You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or… — Tasha Alexander
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins… — Oscar Wilde
Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be… — Osamu Dazai
You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark. — Kenneth Oppel
Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain… — Henry Rollins
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves… — Hermann Hesse
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance;… — Algernon Blackwood
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp… — Donna Tartt
I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing… — Ingmar Bergman
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or… — Milan Kundera
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence… — William James

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