Horror Quotes - Page 25

• And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
  And Horror the soul of the plot.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Plot, Madness

  Edgar Allan Poe (2001). “Great Horror Stories”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Loss, Left

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.369, Macmillan

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• War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the first that the last one I was in. It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it.

  John S. Mosby

  Country, Sweet, War

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• I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling.

  Peter Robinson

  Writing, Years, Robins

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2008.

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• I have a really hard time watching gory stuff and horror movies. I have said no to some horror movie things. I wouldn't rule it out; I could probably be convinced to do one. But sometimes, I just get ill.

  Marin Ireland

  Hard Times, Stuff, Sometimes

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• How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sick, Feelings, Strange

  Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.74, Harper Collins

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• But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

  Anton Chekhov

  Laughter, Reality, Years

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• If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

  Randy Alcorn

  Wall, Views, People

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.74, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state, people can't help but notice that these buskers and mummers seem unmoved by the horrors of actual prison states. (Saddam commissioned a copy of the Quran written in his own blood - but John Ashcroft is the real religious nut, don't you know.)

  James Lileks

  Religious, Real, Blood

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• I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Thinking, Two, Scary

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• There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can't quite see. Either way, it's the same story.

  Phil Klay

  Girl, War, Distance

  Phil Klay (2014). “Redeployment”, p.36, Penguin

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• I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of flattery and a little bit of horror. It's a mixture. It's like sublime shock and awe, but also terror. That's always the way I feel about how music flows through those types of networks. I'm mostly cool with it, but I definitely appreciate when people support the work.

  Tim Hecker

  People, Track, Appreciate

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We've had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants. The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don't think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.

  Adam Gopnik

  Thinking, Mass Shootings, Isis

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

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• I really like suspense in movies. I don't really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like horror films and actress I really like working with fake blood; I think it's so fun.

  Grace Phipps

  Fun, Thinking, Blood

  Interview with Andrew Hawkins, troublecity.squarespace.com. September 28, 2015.

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• WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.

  Anthony Doerr

  Jobs, School, Holocaust

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like horror movies and now I couldn't stand them.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Appreciate, Different, Literature

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.

  Lauren Groff

  Children, Eugenics, Looks

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance - anything you can find, strolling the aisles of a Borders or a Barnes & Noble, I can bring you many comic books representing each genre.

  Michael Uslan

  War, Book, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Source: www.gorestruly.com

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• The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

  Richard Flanagan

  Purpose, Imagine, Destruction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

  Richard Flanagan

  Grief, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds.

  Karen Russell

  Motivation, Real, Dark

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Home, Profound, Dying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our healthcare is a horror show.

  Donald Trump

  Healthcare, Shows

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. January 15, 2016.

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