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Quotes About Horror

Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.
~ Stephen King, Danse Macabre
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'
~ Eli Roth
I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.
~ J Mascis
I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
~ Isak Dinesen
Most of the time things against nature are scarier than the scariest things of nature
~ Munia Khan
Horror alone brings peace of mind.
~ Ernest Becker
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
~ William C. Bryant
Goo can't be return from dead person, revive him and you will see an evil thing. WHich isn't really that the person... (Pet Semetary 1 by Stephen King)
~ Deyth Banger
Pet Sematary 1 is one crazy story and film.
~ Deyth Banger
This inhuman place makes human monsters.
~ Stephen King, The Shining
Life is biting into a cupcake and finding an eyeball at its center.
~ Alexandra Sirowy, The Telling
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
~ Charles Baudelaire
To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.
~ William Alexander Percy
But it was the great temple of Sringeri that always received his most generous patronage, as a stash of correspondence discovered within the temple in the 1950s bears witness. Tipu put on record his horror at the damage done to the temple by a Maratha Pindari raiding party during a Maratha invasion of Mysore: 'People who have sinned against such a holy place are sure to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds,' wrote Tipu. 'Those
~ William Dalrymple
The way earlier societies seem obviously absurd and cruel gives a kind of horror at the forces that must be at work in our own, but suggests that any society must have dramatically satisfying and dangerous conventions; and people can put up with almost any political conditions, either because they are lazy or because they are ambitious.
~ William Empson
Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror.
~ William Graham Sumner
more terrifying now that he had been
~ William H. Lovejoy
This is a lovely world, he sighed. And yet it has suffered horror. Sometimes, so-called civilization seems bent on destroying those very things which it is sworn to protect.
~ William M. Kucmierowski
This is what my girlfriend would look like without skin.
~ David Bischoff
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
~ David Byrne
Is there nothing,' cried Larka bitterly, 'nothing we can see in life that is too terrible? No horror we can see that will bring peace?
~ David Clement-Davies
The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.
~ David Clement-Davies
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
~ David Cronenberg
Horror stories, whether about vampires, ghouls, or flesh-eating zombies, always seem to reflect some aspect of the tellers' own social lives, some terrifying potential, in the way they are accustomed to interact with each other, that they do not wish to acknowledge or confront, but also cannot help but talk about.
~ David Graeber