Horror Quotes

1347 Horror quotes by 941 unique authors

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current — William Peter Blatty
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression… — Peter Singer
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! — John Lahr
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin
The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear… — Oskar Schindler
Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying. — Christopher Isherwood
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. — Robert Delaunay
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times… — Marlene Dietrich
When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear. — Deborah Eisenberg
You know, in the horror movie you kill the monster, and the hand re-emerges. And if you're not looking, the hand grows back and then… — Rudy Giuliani
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded… — Ben Fountain
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross. — D. A. Carson
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to… — John Stott
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be,… — Richard Russo
The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like… — John A. Keel
I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top,… — Serena Williams
. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain… — Ernst Udet
So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful… — Shane Claiborne
I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this… — Joseph de Maistre
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories. — Vernor Vinge
There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a… — Nicholas D. Kristof
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make. — Tad Williams
I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of… — William McKinley

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