Horror Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Then I suddenly had the most tremendous feeling of the pitifulness of human beings, whatever they were, their faces, pained mouths, personalities, attempts to…

— Jack Kerouac

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“How silently the world revolved, when one was brooding, and alone.”

— Eleanor Catton

“There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light,—sad faces…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I…

— Milan Kundera

“We speak in hushed voices, so as not to wake our memories, the things we've done, the things we'll continue to do, for fear…

— Daniel Grayson

“It was terror, I realised, the kind reserved for nightmares, when your mind has no defence against the dark. It was the most primitive,…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

“I closed my eyes, seeking a moment of peace but finding none. Behind my eyelids, an entirely new nightmare was waiting. This wasn’t another…

— Nicole Sobon

“They forgot their lives for a moment, abandoned all fear, every thought and troubling notion carried away on the back of the breathtaking melody.”

— Shawn Mihalik

“I was afraid of maddened faces, of lanterns being shone in my eyes, of blind mindless rage. I was afraid of cold, of hunger,…

— Teffi

“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had…

— Joseph Conrad