Horror Quotes

• Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Thoughtful, Reality

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• I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don’t satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

  Victor LaValle

  Giving, Monsters, Want

  Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.390, Oldcastle Books

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• Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.

  Irwin Shaw

  Sight, Soldier, Hammers

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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• When I try to write love, it only turns into horror. Thinking about it with a clear head, feeling such deep emotions to some other person you don't even know is truly a terrifying thingI wonder if love isn't a manifestation of madness in some way.

  Gen Urobuchi

  Writing, Love Is, Thinking

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• I am like the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily.

  Tania Raymonde

  Perfect, Scared, Blood And Gore

  "Actress Tania Raymonde talks 'Texas Chainsaw 3D'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. January 3, 2013.

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• The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

  Sonya Levien

  Men, Fascination, Looks

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• What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Real, Media, Living Right

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• Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for its life. The whole of the being of the animal is thrown into that fight, without reserve. When you say that the fight lacks a dimension of intellectual or imaginative horror, I agree. It is not the mode of being animals to have an intellectual horror: their whole being is in the living flesh...I urge you to walk, flank to flank, beside the beast that is prodded down the chute to his executioner.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Fighting, Animal, Hands

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.65, Princeton University Press

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• The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Desire, Three, Modern Life

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.71, BookBaby

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• Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Giving, Desire, Hell

  Octave Mirbeau (1989). “The Torture Garden”, Re-Search Publications

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• Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Heaven, Trials, Bleeding

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• I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.

  Brad Listi

  People, Quiet, Imagine

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  Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Halloween, Imagination, Scary

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 5

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• When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.

  George A. Romero

  Scary, Zombie, Earth

  George A. Romero (2015). “Dawn of the Dead”, Simon and Schuster

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  The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Halloween, Scary

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.11, Ageless Reads

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• I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Heart, Men

  "Fictional character: Antonius Block". "The Seventh Seal", 1957.

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• I stumble through a carnival of horrors

  Anne Rice

  Lestat, Carnivals, Vampire Lestat

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.767, Ballantine Books

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• But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Purpose, Defeat

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• Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Heart, Hypocrite, Race

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• He was rewarded with a silver-and-red can of soda. He brandished it at the dolphin warriors as if spraying them with bug repellant. "Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!" The dolphin-men began to panic. They were on the edge of retreat. Percy could feel it.

  Rick Riordan

  Warrior, Men, Dolphins

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• A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Death, Prayer, Numbers

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• When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Courage, Fear

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• A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Reality, Glimpse, World

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• For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.

  Stephen King

  Loss, Dark, Gun

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.791, Simon and Schuster

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