Terror Quotes

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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened.… — Arundhati Roy
I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror? — Neil Gaiman
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in… — Washington Irving
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived. — Willa Cather
An end in terror is preferable to terror without end. — Sophie Scholl
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! — Thomas Mann
The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror — Gustave Flaubert
Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring… — David Gemmell
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live… — Oscar Wilde
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real… — Saul Bellow
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer… — Oscar Wilde
I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. — Donna Tartt
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing… — Robert A. Heinlein
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we… — Norman Mailer
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed… — Angela Carter

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