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Quotes About Horror

There's no delight the equal of dread.
~ Clive Barker
As Harry marveled, the Cenobite continued his brutal effort of making new adjustments to his own flesh so as to fit the Devil's suit: first a slice off his other hip, down to the red meat; then up to his arms, slicing away the flesh at the back of his triceps; and passing the knife from left hand to right and back again, cutting effortlessly with either. The area around his feet looked like the floor of a butcher's store. Cobs and slices of fatty meat were scattered everywhere.
~ Clive Barker
En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad.
~ Clive Barker
No hay mayor placer que el terror. Siempre y cuando sea el de otra persona
~ Clive Barker
Every part of the dead kid's anatomy was swaying hypnotically. The tongue, hanging from the open mouth. The head, lolling on its slit neck. Even the youth's penis flapped from side to side on his plucked groin. The head wound and the open jugular still pulsed blood into a black bucket. There was an elegance about the whole sight: the sign of a job well done.
~ Clive Barker
The demon – what did Harry call him? Dick face? Pinprick? Pinhead! That was it.
~ Clive Barker
Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!
~ Clive Barker (Author)
The headache was a result of being drugged. And then the other horror hit him like a slap to the face, and he involuntarily gasped. He was in avian, driving away from their hotel. Kovac had given him only enough narcotic to make him compliant, like a drunk who needs to be led away from a party.
~ Clive Cussler
The headache was a result of being drugged. And then the other horror hit him like a slap to the face, and he involuntarily gasped. He was in a van, driving away from their hotel. Kovac had given him only enough narcotic to make him compliant, like a drunk who needs to be led away from a party.
~ Clive Cussler
Why do you watch TV shows — and keep watching them — if you don't like them? Terence asked. Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.
~ Colson Whitehead
one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality
~ Colson Whitehead
There was one moment of intersection, when the topic of hate-watching came up. Why do you watch TV shows--and keep watching them--if you don't like them? Terrence asked. Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.
~ Colson Whitehead
A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universities.
~ Colson Whitehead
Months later, after liberation, I met a friend from the old camp. He related to me how he, as camp policeman, had searched for a piece of human flesh that was missing from a pile of corpses. He confiscated it from a pot in which he found it cooking. Cannibalism had broken out. I had left just in time.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Auschwitz—the very name stood for all that was horrible: gas chambers, crematoriums, massacres.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us
~ Viktor E. Frankl
At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I was horrified, but this was just as well, because step by step we had to become accustomed to a terrible and immense horror.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I have no horror of death, and place no value on any god. Cease therefore. For I come ready to die; and first I bring you these gifts. (Mezentius)
~ Virgil
Ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta--- horresco referens---immensis orbibus angues incumbunt pelago, pariterque ad litora tendunt; pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta iubaeque sanguineae superant undas; pars cetera pontum pone legit, sinuatque immensa volumine terga.
~ Virgil
Here is something definite, something real. Thus, waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is a proof of some existence other than ours.
~ Virginia Woolf