Quotes About Horror

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

I've killed hundreds of teenagers. Hundreds. And I didn't know why. Why did I enjoy doing it so much? Why? And then I realized - I had a teenager at home!

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Val- I'm on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

Horror is like the humor, the one without the other can't exist. Horror makes life more interesting like the humor!

The world's full of wonder, he said. Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.

The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)

I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch

When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.

Is it okay to be scared?" Of course. You should be. It's scary. Wedding planning is The Conjuring for Basic Bitches. And marriage itself is The Shining: Terrifying, but also a well-respected classic.

The expression on her face is scarier than an actress in one of dad's horror movies.

He grinned widely, and James saw that blood was dripping from his fangs.

Truly dreadful sounds ensue. The sounds of human disassembly.

Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.