Horror Quotes

1347 Horror quotes by 941 unique authors

Here too itâ€™s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror showâ€¦… — 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
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

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