Terrors Quotes

114 quotes by 104 authors

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless. — Hector Hugh Munro
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle… — Anatole France
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
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
The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and… — Stephen King
I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
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
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
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
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me â€” filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to… — Edgar Allan Poe
The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of… — George R. R. Martin
For the night is dark and full of terrors. — George R. R. Martin
I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at… — Edith Wharton
Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated â€“ in the main, abominably â€“ because they are human beings who cause to… — James A. Baldwin
He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
...But he was a good landlord. When my heater stopped working in mid-December, it took him only two weeks to get it fixed. Of course,… — Darynda Jones
Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full… — George R. R. Martin
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors? — Emile Zola
Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you. — Poppy Z. Brite

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