Admiration Quote by Thomas Day

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

— Ellen Glasgow

“A properly trained lybrarian is one of the most fearless and fearsome beings in the world!”

— Jennifer Swann Downey

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

— Poppy Z. Brite

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

— Max Beerbohm

“What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old Republic had no correspondence to the…

— John Williams

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great…

— George Eliot

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

— Catherynne M. Valente

“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue,…

— Blaise Pascal

In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.

— Plato

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious…

— Thomas Ligotti

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater