Terror Quotes
1123 quotes by 785 authors
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
— Bertrand Russell
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Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.
— Max Brooks
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True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you…
— David Gemmell
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You better take a more civil…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Are you all right?†he asked Olivia. His heart was still racing with terror that she’d been hurt. “I heard a woman scream.†“Ah, that…
— Julia Quinn
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed…
— Emily Bronte
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Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking." "That was…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the…
— Patrick Süskind
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It…
— Oscar Wilde
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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come…
— Oscar Wilde
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There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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a salesman is an it that stinks to please but whether to please itself or someone else makes no more difference than if it sells…
— E E Cummings
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You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming…
— Michael Grant
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For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will…
— Audre Lorde
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