Terror Quotes

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The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. — Frank Herbert
Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat.… — Kat Richardson
If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake… — Richard Matheson
Well . . . sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look. It's our floor. — Rick Riordan
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been â€œa means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor. — Jack Zipes
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open. — W G Sebald
Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For… — Elizabeth Strout
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two… — Neil Gaiman
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities… — Don DeLillo
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in… — Harlan Coben
We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading… — Lord Byron
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless. — Hector Hugh Munro
Iâ€™m a goddess of destruction. Tell me honestly that you find nothing exciting about the idea of a billion people screaming out for mercy when… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt. I think Iâ€™ll… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other… — Terry Pratchett
It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of… — Terry Pratchett
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle… — Anatole France
The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match. — David Gemmell

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