Horror Quotes

1347 Horror quotes by 941 unique authors

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 horrorâ€”just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beautyâ€”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
I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors. — Alan Moore
Pain was a fascinating horror — Aldous Huxley
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. — Guy de Maupassant

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