Horror Quotes

1347 Horror quotes by 941 unique authors

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it… — Guy de Maupassant
Weâ€™d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial weâ€™d survive to talk about. — Chuck Palahniuk
An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the… — Chuck Palahniuk
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read… — Karen Marie Moning
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can… — Stephen King
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. — H P Lovecraft
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have… — Daniel Dennett
Isnâ€™t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste… — James Clavell
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is… — Douglas Adams
Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way. — H P Lovecraft
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that… — H P Lovecraft
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I… — Joseph Conrad
That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy." Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things." But---buried alive!… — Eoin Colfer
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown… — China Mieville
The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is… — Michelle Tea
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. — John Milton
Iâ€™m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "Weâ€™re on vacation! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we… — Diane Ackerman
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. Itâ€™s like network television. Iâ€™m your local cable access… — Thomas Ligotti

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