Terror Quotes

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I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver
Thatâ€™s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something weâ€™d like to think weâ€™ve grown beyond. But… — Chuck Palahniuk
Beauty is only the start of bearable terror. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every… — Philip Larkin
She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister… — Kate Chopin
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. — James A. Baldwin
At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy… — Barack Obama
A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if… — Margaret Atwood
Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R. — James Patterson
To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything. — Ernest Becker
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain… — Oscar Wilde
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I… — Joseph Conrad
His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least… — Franz Kafka
So no, Iâ€™m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity… — William P. Young
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,… — Clive Barker
Ask a deeply religious Christian if heâ€™d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or… — Scott Adams
The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive. — Carlos Castaneda
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion. — Mikhail Bulgakov

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