Quotes About Terror

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

There are a few images in 'Exorcist 3' that scared me - people crawling on ceilings, etc. - but nothing beats the original. Even the book scared me to death.

There's an old goblin saying; there is nothing to fear but fear itself and scary things.

The repression the Republic imposed in the Vendée escalated to a level of surreal violence that dwarfed the Parisian Terror.

People in a boat, waiting, terrified, while implacable, unsmiling men, irresistibly strong, seize… maybe the person next to you, maybe you, and with no warning at all, with time only for a quick intake of air you are pitched into freezing, turbulent water and salt and darkness to drown.

one of the governing impulses in any society is, and must be, a terror of indistinctness.

La fobia es un pretexto que se ha inventado el organismo para ocultar un terror verdadero, justificado, pero que la mente se empeña en ignorar.

Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.

På natten blir det hemska mycket värre än det är.

This nightmare was far worse than the one she usually had.

They all turned and found a NightWing dragonet standing there, staring at Turtle, with his face contorted in terror.

He can't tell him about me, though," said Turtle. "Or if he does, Darkstalker won't hear it. My enchantment hides me completely from him." I hope. I hope I hope I hope. If I did it right. Which seems unlikely, knowing me. Ack. "That's clever," said Qibli. "How did you think of that?" "I used this brainstorming method called pure terror," Turtle admitted. "It wasn't so much clever as deeply cowardly.

Then a terrifying roar split the air,

I remember the fact of extreme, prostrating terror,' he said ... but the inward nature of the emotion now escapes me.

Frightfulness is never more than an unfamiliar pattern.

The world is unfathomable and mysterious, just as we all are. The art of the warrior consists of reconciling the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

madman and a monster.

none of the agony it had caused her, the terror, or the heartbreak. "But

Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

There are times when I am concerned about Toph's expression when I'm really singing, with vibrato and all, singing the guitar parts and everything—an expression that to the untrained eye might look like abject terror, or revulsion—but I know well enough that it is awe.