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Quotes About Horror

I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.
~ Michael Leunig
And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror].
~ Quran 14 42
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
~ Bela Lugosi
I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.
~ Ivan Reitman
I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.
~ Alice Lowe
I love Halloween, and I love spooky stuff. I love horror movies. I love everything creepy, and I've always kind of wanted to do this, just do really dark pop.
~ Kim Petras
I definitely think I do things one project at a time and I try not to be too into one thing, but I love horror. I don't know if my success as a horror boy is because people think my face is spooky or what, but I definitely enjoy making these movies.
~ Miles Robbins
You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
~ Garret Dillahunt
There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary or whatever, and then there are some people who are maybe not entirely stable who think that they're real, who think that they're being stalked by the same demons or ghosts that are mentioned in the books.
~ David Wong
I've got a stack of the 'Walking Dead' comic books next to my bed here.
~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan
It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.
~ Wes Craven
I did try and do some spooky stand up once, and some of my stand-up had - I tried to do some horror stand-up, but it didn't really work very well.
~ Julian Barratt
I tend to develop my rambling anecdotes by actually getting up and performing them. That's the joy/horror of stand up - if you have the germ of an idea that you think might be funny, there is a way of finding out if it's funny very quickly.
~ Greg Davies
It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same.
~ Clive Barker
Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.
~ Lu Xun
In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!
~ Jonathan Littell
There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.
~ Varlam Shalamov
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
This was love? It was like being held hostage by a terrorist. The feelings from hope to horror were crazy intense and changed on a dime. If
~ Teresa Toten
the truth of God for a lie" has had as a common practice in their idol worship the insane horror of child sacrifice.
~ Terry James