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Quotes About Terror

In Selphin's gaze, Hark saw desperation, terror, rage, and a will as relentless as winter. He had just enough time to realize how wrong he was before she turned and jumped.
~ Frances Hardinge
Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin is no amusing toy—it is a terror to be shunned! Learn, then, what constitutes sin in the eyes of God!
~ Billy Graham
Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.
~ Billy Graham
Hate means strife, and the two together weave the robe that terror wears.
~ blackwood algernon ii
Terror in the house does roar, But Pity stands before the door.
~ blake william v
Some of the benefits of swimming derive, ironically, from daring to come as close as we can to this very fight for survival. That's the sublime: the awe and the terror, together. Those moments of panic, the electric flashes of fear, are elucidating, exhilarating. The act of getting in is a small defiance of death itself.
~ Bonnie Tsui
Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for transport.
~ Harold Bloom
thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
~ Harold Bloom
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
~ Haruki Murakami
What I felt then was a deep terror. And a kind of hopelessness, a feeling that I could never run away from this thing, no matter how far I went. And this creature, this thing doesn't give a damn that I'm me or you're you. In its presence, all human beings lose their names and their faces. We all turn into signs, into numbers.
~ Haruki Murakami
You have to create thoughts from scratch, Piglet. And as for the ingredients, you need love, wisdom, terror and acceptance. You have to put all these emotions together in order for them to be big and bold and gigantic ideas that you can be proud of and truly call your own. These are the kinds of thoughts that are free and original and can change the world.
~ Heather O'Neill
Field goal kicking is wildly exciting for all the wrong reasons. We regularly interrupt games to go for a ride on the equivalent of Disney's stomach-in-throat Tower of Terror.
~ Skip Bayless
How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
~ Keanu Reeves
The year 1999, seventh month, from Heaven will come a great king of terror: to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois. Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
~ Nostradamus
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
~ Maya Angelou
All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.
~ Richard Engel
Prema iskustvu gradjanskog rata protiv Kozaka neophodno je odobriti kao jedinu politi?ki korektnu mjeru, nemilosrdnu borbu, masovni teror protiv bogatih Kozaka, koje bi trebalo istrijebiti i fizi?ki likvidirati do posljednje - tajna rezolucija Centralnog komiteta Boljševi?ke partije od 24.01.1919.
~ Stéphane Courtois
The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
~ Stanley Kubrick
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
~ Herman Melville
Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.
~ Michael A. Arnzen
Still, the gross-out footage is what really embodied the band's aesthetic. "Listen, man, one has no choice but to laugh in the face of terror," Haynes explained. "I think probably most airline pilots, when they see the ground coming at them, just before they hit, go, 'Oh my god, we're in trouble! Ha-ha-ha!
~ Michael Azerrad
like the ghastly mouth in Edvard Munch's painting The Scream.
~ Michael Connelly
Terror can fill any space
~ Michael Crichton