Quotes About Horror

I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Do people look at me and see horror lurking just beneath this tattered skin? Or is it the reverse? Do they see that something is missing? the spark of divinity that makes a life human? I am a void, a chaotic abyss, that would swallow up the world.

Where did they get those screams, Katniss?

As we reach the next corner, the entire block ahead of us lights up with a rich purple glow. We backpedal, hunker down in a stairwell, and squint into the light. Something's happening to those illuminated by it. They're assaulted by . . . what? A sound? A wave? A laser? Weapons fall from their hands, fingers clutch their faces, as blood sprays from all visible orifices — eyes, noses, mouths, ears. In less than a minute, everyone's dead and the glow vanishes.

A bomb explodes. Time is allowed for people to rush to the aid of the wounded. Then a second, more powerful bomb kills them as well.

I know I am playing out some tragic Greek play and I´m horrified, but the show must go on.

No, I'm done! I'm tired, I'm sweaty, I'm in agony, and why do I feel like I need to shit?" "It's totally natural to feel that way," said Grace in a placatory, calming voice. "Some women even have one during labor." "What?" The word dripped with horror. "Women can shit when they're in labor? Tell me that won't happen to me! Don't you let me shit, Grace!

One of the reasons I love horror so much is - when it's done well - you can keep peeling away the layers and see something new every time.

It's difficult, very difficult to create something new every time in this space of horror and scare people every time.

I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

I actually read somewhere that they measured how many calories you burn from watching movies, and horror movies are way, way up the list.

Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.