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Quotes About Horror

And they lived horribly ever after, scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them.
~ William Steig
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
~ William Styron
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.
~ William T. Sherman
A nightmare is a black dream because our soul wandered too far in sleep into a haunted place
~ William W. Johnstone
Everyone knew immediately where we were. It was so insane—that moment of realization, Yes, this is an extermination camp.
~ Willy Lindwer
We knew about the gas chambers. As soon as you arrived in Auschwitz, you knew about the gas chambers. How, I don't know. But we knew it. We saw that huge, black, smoky fire; we lived close by. We smelled the odor. You can never forget that.
~ Willy Lindwer
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Te ríes cuando deberías horrorizarte. Te enamoras de mí cuando más bien tendrías que esquivarme.
~ Xavier Velasco
if he lost his way in a moment of collective hysteria, that's because the horrors of everyday life are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm all defenses, and human degeneracy is deeper than any abyss.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Ce n'est pas la première fois qu'un attentat secoue Tel-Aviv, et les secours sont menés au fur et à mesure avec une efficacité grandissante. Mais un attentat reste un attentat. A l'usure, on peut le gérer techniquement, pas humainement. L'émoi et l'effroi ne font pas bon ménage avec le sang froid. Lorsque l'horreur frappe, c'est toujours le coeur qu'elle vise le premier.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Turmoil and terror aren't compatible with sangfroid. When horror strikes, the heart is always its first target.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Ce n'est pas la première fois qu'un attentat secoue Tel-Aviv, et les secours sont menés au fur et à mesure avec une efficacité grandissante. Mais un attentat reste un attentat. À l'usure, on peut le gérer techniquement, pas humainement. L'émoi et l'effroi ne font pas bon ménage avec le sang-froid. Lorsque l'horreur frappe, c'est toujours le cÅ"ur qu'elle vise en premier.
~ Yasmina Khadra
It is only in staring horrors in the face and insisting on their systemic, not accidental, character that theory sustains radical commitments.
~ David McNally
Wonder if Stephen King's like us or like them..?
~ David Moody
It is not a look of horror, consternation, or even distress. More often than not, the last visage of a murdered man resembles that of a flustered schoolchild to whom the logic of a simple equation has just been revealed.
~ David Simon
Imagine that. Vomiting until all that was left to sick up was your own blood!
~ David Walliams
Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.
~ David Wellington
A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.
~ David Wellington
Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.
~ David Wong
Fred said, "Man, I think he's gonna make a fuckin' suit of human skin, using the best parts from each of us." "Holy crap," said John. "He'll be gorgeous.
~ David Wong
There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?
~ David Wong
Here's exclusive Channel 5 video of a local man having his brain eaten by a winged gremlin. Local gremlin experts warn that—
~ David Wong
I am not the star of a zombie movie. I am the guy in the background who gets eaten in the first montage.
~ David Wong
I want no part of this nonsense. This whole city is a butt that farts horror.
~ David Wong