Macabre Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration… — Nicolas Cage
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht
Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. — Jessica Mitford
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been… — Peter Cushing
I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a… — Alfred Hitchcock
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. — Terry Tempest Williams
Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious… — Tippi Hedren
When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of… — Rick Riordan
Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the… — Lisa Ann Sandell
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment… — H P Lovecraft
Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. — Paulo Coelho
Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises? — N.K. Jemisin
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as… — Lauren DeStefano
It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we… — Colman Domingo
[It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I've been doing nothing but the danse macabre… — Wole Soyinka

Who Wrote These Macabre Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 17 Macabre Quotes as follows: