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Quotes About Eerie

We are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard-of doctrines, a time in which the elements of common decency are themselves attacked as indecent. Nothing quite like this has ever happened before. Although our civilization has passed through quite a few troughs of immorality, never before has vice held the high moral ground.
~ Unknown
This situation has got eldritch coming out the ass.
~ Unknown
Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
~ John Banville
When I'm alone in my house, every sound is a ghost.
~ Unknown
Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.
~ Warren Zevon
Horror itself is such a magical genre.
~ Lydia Hearst
Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.
~ Dodie Smith
Any cat can make a house seem haunted.
~ Dodie Smith
It is when death is rendered graphically, is televised so to speak, that you sense an eerie separation between your condition and yourself. A network of symbols has been introduced, an entire awesome technology wrested from the gods. It makes you feel like a stranger in your own dying.
~ Don DeLillo
When Lee has a certain look on his face, eyes kind of amused, mouth small and tight, he finds himself thinking of his father. He believes it is a look his father may have used. It feels like his father. A curious sensation, the look coming upon him, taking hold in an unmistakable way, and then his old man is here, eerie and forceful and whole, a meeting across worlds.
~ Don DeLillo
What about the Americans?" "Eerie people. Genetically engineered to play squash and work weekends.
~ Don DeLillo
The dead have come to take the living. The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays the hurdy-gurdy.
~ Don DeLillo
The lamplight was eerie, and, standing there motionless in our bathrobes, sleepy, with shadows flickering all around, I felt as though I had woken from one dream into an even more remote one, some bizarre wartime bomb shelter of the unconscious.
~ Donna Tartt
Slenderman is looking at you.
~ Jack Goldstein
The man said somehow he was sure he was—dead—the minute he saw him. He doesn't know how. Just some special kind of stillness.
~ James Agee
Crumpled taffeta and crushed satin gave the room an eerie look, as if a magic spell had been cast and people had simply dropped in their tracks.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
An eerie feeling plagued the back of her mind, insisting that a supernatural force was within the room, or worse, within her!
~ Unknown
There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.
~ Kim Edwards
The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear
~ D. H. Lawrence
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
~ George Carlin
You think Halloween comes only once a year? wrong. Walk into Walmart at 3 in the morning. That's some scary sketchy sh...
~ Unknown
The eerie, still, darkness was flickered and slivered by small receding flames, and was wrapped in the brown smell of burned beans and tobacco smoke and human sweat, and Kit had the sense that he was somehow simply a spectator to another side of reality – observing, listening.
~ Unknown
Mine means 'body,'" Tanu interjected. 'Wow, that's so eerie,' ALF said. 'Because . . . you have a body.
~ Megan McCafferty