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Quotes About Horror

When Dick was killed last week he looked like that, Flapping along the fire-step like a fish, After the blazing crump had knocked him flat…. "How many dead? As many as ever you wish. Don't count 'em; they're too many. Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny?
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Alone he staggered on until he found Dawn's ghost that filtered down a shafted stair To the dazed, muttering creatures underground Who hear the boom of shells in muffled sound. At last, with sweat of horror in his hair, He climbed through darkness to the twilight air, Unloading hell behind him step by step.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.
~ Silvia Federici
I feel such sorrow when I think how horror imitates beauty.
~ Silvina Ocampo
There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...
~ Simon R. Green
The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.
~ Simon R. Green
Equating horror with the inhuman has always struck me as convenient but fallacious, if only because I was born into a century that should have ended such talk for good.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I knew that by some definition both Teddy Giles and Mark Wechsler were insane, examples of indifference many regard as monstrous and unnatural; but in fact they weren't unique and their actions were recognizably human. Equating horror with the inhuman has always struck me as convenient but fallacious, if only because I was born into a century that should have ended such talk for good.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.
~ Melanie Martinez
I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.
~ Amber Heard
I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.
~ Barbara Crampton
When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.
~ David Hayter
Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
~ Luis Bunuel
I love splashing the blood around.
~ Neil Marshall
We love things with biting - "Twilight" movies, zombie movies, eating.
~ Peter Sagal
My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.
~ Dean Koontz
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
~ Famke Janssen
I do love old horror, everytime I watch Rosemary's Baby the performances just get richer and richer and more multi-layered, and I see images that are just so politically outrageous. I love it all.
~ Robert Englund
Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.
~ Emmanuelle Vaugier
You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.
~ Graham Greene
Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
~ James Frey
I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made.
~ Olivia Munn
The dead walk among us.
~ Max Brooks
But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
~ Max Brooks