Terror Quotes

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Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow.… — David Gemmell
She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had… — Dean Koontz
Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Trav, if you cross us -- " "I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terror. — Rachel Caine
All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap… — Catherynne M. Valente
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most… — Betty Smith
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like… — Meg Cabot
That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee… — Nora Roberts
But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels… — Leo Tolstoy
The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to… — Stephen King
For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through… — Carson McCullers
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and… — Tim O'Brien
I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear… — David Benioff
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer
If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, â€œIâ€™d like to do this, or that. — Lydia Davis
There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we… — Jim Butcher
...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and… — Charlotte Bronte
The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear… — Victor Hugo
Iâ€™m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, â€œDo not actually put your hand in the alligator,â€ while terror says, â€œAvoid… — Mira Grant

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