Quotes About Horror

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

I love 'The Exorcist.'

If people believe that the Geto Boys really do stuff like on 'Mind of a Lunatic,' they must also believe there's a real Freddie Krueger and a real Micheal Myers.

I used to read a lot of books and magazines about Dracula.

Nosferatu' has a very close, magical connection for me.

Somewhere in the '80s during the home video era something happened and horror started getting more and more marginalized and thought of as schlock.

Look at it! It's ginger! I shall have to hide until it's grown out! Despair! Anguish! Horror!

Meanwhile, the war storm blew violently, scaring all, and casting a shadow on the lives of our Guests, who fled from the entrance of crematoriums and the thresholds of gas chambers, needing more than refuge. They desperately needed hope that a safe haven even existed, that the war's horrors would one day end, while they drifted along in the strange villa even its owners referred to as an ark.

Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.

Writing tales of horror makes it hard to convince people that I'm a nice, gentle person. I love rainbows and wildflowers and butterflies and babies, and I wouldn't swat a fly unless it was diving directly into my fruit salad.

I'm sorry," I heard her say. "One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

Lo lamento -le oí decir-. Nos acostumbramos tanto a nuestros propios horrores que olvidamos el efecto que pueden tener en otras personas.

I decided that it was like the difference between the beautiful old Godsend graves and the new ones open to receive coffins (which I never can bear to look at); that time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

The thought was horrible, yet fascinating.

I could look at stationers' shops for ever and ever. Rose says they are the dullest shops in the world except, perhaps, butchers'. (I don't see how you can call butchers' shops dull; they are too full of horror.)

When a long-desired baby is born, what joy! More happiness than we find in sex, more than we take in success, revenge, or wealth. But should the same infant die, would you measure the horror on the same rule? Grief weighs down the seesaw, joy cannot budget it.

Brunetti had once come across the term 'compassion fatigue', but thought that the oh-so-clever press had got it wrong, and the term should really be, 'horror fatigue'.

It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.

Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things-- naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror-- are too terrible to really ever grasp at all.

Horrific as it was, the present dark, I was afraid to leave it for the other, permanent dark – jelly and bloat, the muddy pit. I had seen the shadow of it on Bunny's face – stupid terror; the whole world opening upside down; his life exploding in a thunder of crows and the sky expanding empty over his stomach like a white ocean. Then nothing. Rotten stumps, sowbugs crawling in the fallen leaves. Dirt and dark.

The world and everything in it was intolerably and permanently fucked and nothing had ever been good or okay, unbearable claustrophobia of the soul, the windowless room, no way out, waves of shame and horror, leave me alone.

unbearable claustrophobia of the soul, the windowless room, no way out, waves of shame and horror

Looks and language of hatred are not very pretty at any time, but in the atmosphere of death they acquire a character of horror.

When Slenderman screams, the world will end.