Terror Quotes

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It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible â€” incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It… — Marilynne Robinson
He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my… — Terry Pratchett
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair.… — H.G. Wells
We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds… — Eileen Wilks
And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and… — Lauren Oliver
The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat… — Stephen King
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel… — Haruki Murakami
For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without… — Juliet Marillier
Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for each… — Arundhati Roy
did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that Iâ€™ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . .… — David Foster Wallace
There's a terror in knowing what the world is about — David Bowie
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as… — Jack London
He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in… — Douglas Adams
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in… — Maximilien Robespierre
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or… — Edmund Burke
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop… — Marcel Proust
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work… — Thomas Ligotti
Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires,… — Richard Matheson
We were kingâ€™s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of… — George R. R. Martin

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