Terrors Quotes

114 quotes by 104 authors

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which… — R. D. Laing
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! — Dwight L. Moody
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many… — Stendhal
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval… — Martin Filler
I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about — Edward Bloor
It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of… — Poppy Z. Brite
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather… — Leonard Cohen
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. — Oscar Wilde
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such… — Leo Tolstoy
In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds… — Stephen King
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in… — Washington Irving
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without… — Friedrich Nietzsche
So no, Iâ€™m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity… — William P. Young
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire… — Douglas Adams
Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing… — David Deida
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. — Frank Herbert
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
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
No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open. — W G Sebald

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