Terror Quotes
1123 quotes by 785 authors
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It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
— John Steinbeck
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Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you live afraid of…
— Ellen Hopkins
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The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction…
— Noam Chomsky
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They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to…
— Suzanne Collins
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Everything‟s fine,†I said, with a tight smile. “Kiyo was just giving me his latest explanation about how my son is a terror to be…
— Richelle Mead
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You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or…
— Tasha Alexander
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Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another…
— Anais Nin
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
— Yann Martel
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He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was…
— Leo Tolstoy
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In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead.…
— Darynda Jones
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But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.
— Bernard Beckett
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…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
— Thomas Mann
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My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to…
— Veronica Roth
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As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge…
— Stephen King
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That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his…
— Kenneth Grahame
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Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility.…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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