Destruction Quote by Richard Flanagan

How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?

— Eugene Delacroix

I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger…

— D. J. MacHale

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Joe Hill

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

— Eugene Ionesco

The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.

— Félix J. Palma

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could…

— Osamu Dazai

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

— Meg Rosoff

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing,…

— George W. Bush

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

— Anonymous

What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

— Antony Beevor

If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes…

— Don Roff