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Quotes About Horror

In her elementary school days, she'd experienced something so terrifying that it was too much to remember.
~ K?ji Suzuki
Aquellos que hayan visto estas imágenes están condenados a morir a esta misma hora exactamente dentro de una semana
~ K?ji Suzuki
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again. from Coleridge: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread
~ Karen Armstrong
People were outraged. They were glued to their televisions, to their web pages, to their Facebook feeds. They vocally expressed sorrow, horror, fury, pain. They cried for change. They raised money. They demanded action. And then they went back to their lives until the next one happened again.
~ Karin Slaughter
Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat. Predators take the ones who run. Horror is the mind-thing, the worm of knowledge you can't stop turning over no matter how awful it is. It grows in your mind and destroys you by your own intelligence.
~ Kat Richardson
Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.
~ Kate Atkinson
Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.
~ Johnny Depp
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
~ Stephen King
Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.
~ Adam Nevill
Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.
~ Bill Oberst Jr.
But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.
~ Charlaine Harris
I do love horror movies, but I'm not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group.
~ Christopher Mintz-Plasse
New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.
~ Djuna Barnes
The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.
~ Douglas Preston
Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.
~ Herman Melville
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
~ Jennifer Weiner
Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.
~ Rita Mae Brown
'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
~ Maurice Sendak
I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'
~ Les Dawson
Suddenly you're ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you're alive and its spectacular.
~ Joseph Campbell
I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.
~ Kirk Hammett
I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.
~ Kirk Hammett
I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman