Quotes About Terror

She absorbed the terror and beauty of him and his world. Of every moment over the past days. All of it, filling her up like the first breath she'd ever taken. And never had she loved life more.

Stalin gave Hitler his strength by driving the middle classes away from Communism with the nightmare of forced collectivization, famine, and terror against the technicians.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

I've been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it's possible.

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.

it is a dreadfull thing to look down Praecipices.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

Anyone can discern the evils of the factory system or the Terror. But it takes considerable wisdom to discern the evils embedded in the staccato blather of a seventeen-year-old girl.

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.

that is when I realized what our romance was about. It was not about a future that was socially just, or about a world redeemed. It was about averting our eyes from this ordinary fact. Our romance was a shield protecting us from the terror of our common human fate.

The Right has been hamstrung in resistance by adherence to law; for, to a conservative, what greater crime than adopting terror (the rejection of law) to preserve law? (Compare this from the Vietnam War: "We destroyed the village in order to save

He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death. - Frank Balenger

I come by my alarmism honestly. I have learned this custom over the years as I have settled into being a true New Yorker. This is how we welcome foreigners to our shores. Because we are so often frightened by living here, we are annoyed and offended when visitors fail to show the proper signs of terror. So we try to scare the living daylights out of them.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.

Like me, you are human, after all, and we know what a joy and terror that is.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

Except that now, for having accused Ravi of an unspecified crime he hadn't committed, I was as good as dead. In years subsequent, when he was in the mood to terrorize me, he would whisper to me, Just wait till we're alone. You're the next goat!

It's not right that gentleness meet horror.

Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything.