Horror Quote by Ernest Becker Download Open image “Horror alone brings peace of mind.” — Ernest Becker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Horror Mind Peace Peace of mind Psychology
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion… — Tim Minear Copy Share Image
The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled. — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
I think the best horror is often a metaphor or keys into people's real life paranoia. — Ti West Copy Share Image
Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul,… — Fran Kranz Copy Share Image
Horror's just better in a room full of people that are just freaking out. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“When we are young we are often puzzled by the fact that each person we admire seems to have a different version of what… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too much narrowness… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“This is one of the reasons for bigotry and censorship of all kinds over personal morality: people fear that the standard morality will be… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Understanding this, Rank could take a great step beyond Freud. Freud thought that modern man’s moral dependence on another was a result of the… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame. — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What I love about watching classic horror films is that they take you on a ride and they obviously make you scared because you're… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is horror. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was… — David Weber Copy Share Image
“When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our own government officials, ... We could… — Hannibal Copy Share Image
“Unlike the rest he had seen of the bungalow, the hall beyond the door was dark. He could see the glimmer of three doors… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image