Terror Quotes

1123 quotes by 785 authors

My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather… — Leonard Cohen
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend… — Arundhati Roy
Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own… — Tim O'Brien
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with… — Blaise Pascal
Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. — Carol Plum-Ucci
What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa,… — Virginia Woolf
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699 — Thomas Pynchon
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. — Oscar Wilde
Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror. — Thomas M. Disch
Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He… — Gore Vidal
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such… — Leo Tolstoy
In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds… — Stephen King
Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost. — Carl Sandburg
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? — Lawrence Durrell
How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and… — Winston Churchill
I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling,… — Charlotte Bronte
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final — Rainer Maria Rilke
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. — Anais Nin
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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