Horror Quotes - Page 6

• America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?

  Patricia Cornwell

  Country, Gun, America

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• People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.

  Sue Grafton

  Country, Passion, Exercise

  Sue Grafton (1988). “"E" is for Evidence”, p.92, Macmillan

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• Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

  Mary MacLane

  Sex, Stupid, Two

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.514, Petrarca Press

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• Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

  Caryl Rivers

  Technology, Men, Light

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather than reality. On paper one can understand Gulliver, or Kafka, or Dante. But let a man go about behaving as if he were a giant or a midget, or caught in a cosmic plot directed at himself, or in heaven or hell, and we feel horror - we want to disavow him to proclaim him as far removed as possible from ourselves.

  Helen Eustis

  Reality, Men, Heaven

  Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.245, Library of America

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• The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.

  Nancy Milford

  Fashion, Flower, Hats

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• The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun." Now that's horror.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Song, May, Radio

  Review of 1408, Salon.com, 2007.

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• To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Ideas, Easy, Worst

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• Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.

  Adrienne Mayor

  War, Ideas, Years

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• My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its very best in their full vigor, not because war means economic bankruptcy, domination of races by famine and disease, but because war is so completely ineffective, so stupid. It settles nothing.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  War, Stupid, Mean

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• War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days.

  Zlata Filipović

  War, Unfolding, Replaced

  Zlata Filipović (1994). “Le journal de Zlata”, Viking Adult

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• The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three other interrelated biblical truths: human sin, God's holiness, and the cross of Christ.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Christian, Biblical, Horror Stories

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• With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. Its a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.

  Drew Goddard

  Rough Edges, Enemy, Quality

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• Theres just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and theres something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, youre usually going to have a good time.

  Drew Goddard

  Fun, People, Together

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• There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Littles, Might, Matter

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• I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Powerful, Philosophy, Writing

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• Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand

  A. C. Bradley

  Desire, Done, Deeds

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• We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

  David J. C. MacKay

  Wind, Feet, Nuclear

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• In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound.  It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.

  Cindy Sherman

  Real, Humorous, Horror Stories

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• I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

  Charlie Munger

  Majority, Faces, Arguing

  Source: www.rationalwalk.com

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• I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone in my head and nobody will ever see through my eyes. I'm just completely alone.

  Sarah Silverman

  Eye, Horror Stories, Body

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.

  George A. Romero

  Ideas, Mixing, Different

  Source: techland.time.com

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• One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Memories, Thinking, Remember

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like Chucky or Saw or whatever, I'm like come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives. I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.

  Emily Alyn Lind

  Blood, Knives, Stories

  "Katee Sackhoff and Emily Alyn Lind Talk THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT 2: GHOSTS OF GEORGIA, Favorite Horror Movies and Staying in a Haunted House". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Korea, Satire, Shows

  "The Elephant in The Interview" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2014.

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