Devastation Quote by Thomas Ligotti

As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is…

— Laura van den Berg

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us,…

— Albert Camus

Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens,…

— Savitri Devi

For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we…

— Washington Irving

What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place that we,…

— Mike Flanagan

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

— Nikki Sixx

The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except…

— Joseph Brodsky

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to…

— Howard Zinn

The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence,…

— Haniel Long

“The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which radical evil…

— Thomas Ligotti

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage…

— Anonymous

“Our fascination with the gothic peaks in times of anxiety, panic, and upheaval. The Victorian gothic revival of the 1890s was stoked by scientific,…

— Carina Chocano