Crime Quote by Jean Racine

I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any…

— Richard Ramirez

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and…

— Anonymous

[I was] feeling like I'd done something horrible, "I'm a despicable person and I'm perverse," and all these things, to a sense of the…

— Wes Craven

I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone,…

— Albert Camus

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify,…

— Stephen King

My first murder was thrilling because I had embarked on the career I had chosen for myself, the career of murder.

— John Christie

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

— Joe Hill

I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children…

— Ralph McGehee

Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your…

— Tim O'Brien

It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed. It's a…

— Philippe Petit

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

— James Herbert

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the…

— Anne Waldman