Richard Matheson Quotes About Terror

Quotes about: Terror

• If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

  Richard Matheson

  Morning, Sleep, Men

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.144, Macmillan

• Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

  Richard Matheson

  Circles, Forever, Entering

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

• Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

  Richard Matheson

  Pain, Circles, People

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

• A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

  Richard Matheson

  Made, Terror

  Richard Matheson (2017). “Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday”, p.118, RosettaBooks

• In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.

  Richard Matheson

  Heart, People, Veins

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

• I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your mind. Look at what's going on in the America today. The violence is just awful and I think a lot of has to do with what they are showing on the movies and television.

  Richard Matheson

  Believe, Thinking, America

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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