Agony Quote by William James

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

— William James

“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

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their…

— Yukio Mishima

“horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our…

— Peter James

“A vision of the Shining One swirling into our world, a monstrous, glorious flaming pillar of incarnate, eternal Evil--of people passing through its radiant…

— A. Merritt

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be…

— Anonymous

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Eugene Delacroix

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