Quote by Scott Anderson

“This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.”

— George Orwell

“My demise resulted from a terror-one of my own creation.I was capable of conjuring up the most horrifying feelings of bone chilling fear,hopelessness,and guilt.”

— Lisa-Scarlett Cruji

“We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.”

— Jodi Picoult

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“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

“I had entered that critical stage in a woman’s life – that place when emotion starved to death and the only two options left…

— Shayne Silvers

“Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost…

— Stephen King

“Trauma is any terrifying event that instantly changes the world as we know it, leaving us helpless and emotionally overwhelmed.”

— Sue Johnson

“For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.”

— Sophocles

“The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her…

— Virginia Woolf

“Death was surely not an ephemeral interloper; its lasting effect was grating and horrible and one was constantly reminded of the permanence of an…

— Henry H. Roth