Horrors Quotes
238 Horrors quotes by 206 unique authors
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It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust,…
— Mark Udall
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I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and…
— George Washington
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy…
— Victoria Woodhull
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The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.
— John Kennedy Toole
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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
— Horace Greeley
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Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is…
— C.S. Lewis
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A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's…
— Emma Goldman
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We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.…
— Nhat Hanh
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The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist…
— Joseph Heller
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she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to…
— Paulo Coelho
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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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
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One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.
— Diane Setterfield
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Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
— Orson Scott Card
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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
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