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Quotes About Creeping

When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein ' 'The Creeping Unknown ' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet ' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
~ John Carpenter
To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.
~ Richard Jefferies
Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
~ William Shakespeare
Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V
~ Shakespeare; William
I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
~ Lillie Langtry
My delight is the exquisite. Yes, for me, Glitter and sunlight and love Are one society. So I shall not go creeping away To die in the dark: I shall go on living with you, Loving and loved.
~ Sappho
Fischhoff calls this phenomenon creeping determinism -- the sense that grows on us, in retrospect, that what has happened was actually inevitable -- and the chief effect of creeping determinism, he points out, is that it turns unexpected events into expected events. As he writes, The occurrence of an event increases its reconstructed probability and makes it less surprising than it would have been had the original probability been remembered.
~ Mark Haddon
Why, hello, Death. Long time no see. As you can see, I just couldn't stay away. The creeping things called out to Me. Anyway, what brings you here?- God
~ George Pendle
and claws of creeping foxes.
~ Sarah Waters
book of Revelation is written to shape a church surrounded by the swamping and creeping ways of Babylon.
~ Scot McKnight
You carried your own burden and very soon your symptoms of creeping privilege disappeared.
~ Seamus Heaney
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
~ Jonathan Swift
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
~ Eric Hoffer
Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
~ Eric Hoffer
I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
This sick strange darkness comes creeping on so haunting everytime And as I stared I counted the webs from all the spiders catching things and eating their insides Like indecision to call you And hear your voice of treason Will you come home and stop this pain tonight stop this pain tonight
~ blink 182
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
~ South
Ik ga voor je zingen, een beetje vals misschien, maar ik zing toch. Ik zing terwijl jullie creperen, ik dans op je gore lijk...
~ Henry Miller
I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
~ Sergio Aragones
Once more I have seen the count go down in his lizard fashion.
~ Bram Stoker
They carried sticks and wore white clothes with bells on them, to stop them creeping up on people. No one likes an unexpected Morris dancer.
~ Terry Pratchett
I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me.
~ Glen Duncan
Apocalypse is rarely sudden; no, among these mortals, it creeps slow, yet inevitable, relentless in its thorough obliteration of life, of health, of beauty.
~ Steven Erikson