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Quotes About Horror

All men have a measure of cowardice in them. I learned that love of one's mates can overcome your fears. I learned that every survivor of this horror must try to live a good life because he lives for many men.
~ Leon Uris
I never got over the horror of watching their graduation ceremonies, performed before their parents. After a demonstration of 'military prowess' and personal courage the ceremony ended with their biting off the heads of snakes. As the blood dripped down their chins, they roasted the dead animals for a victory feast. Other schools had the children strangle puppies and drink their blood.
~ Leon Uris
El mayor problema de Birkenau era la dificultad para desembarazarse de los cadáveres. Al principio los llevaban directamente desde las cámaras de gas a grandes zanjas donde los cubrían con cal. Pero el hedor era insoportable.
~ Leon Uris
Abbott and Costello are surrounded—by Bela Lugosi and Glenn Strange—in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
~ Leonard Maltin
the destination was the local cemetery, where everyone was ordered to dig a mass grave and then was shot dead and buried in it.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
We dare not brush aside unexplained a horror such as Nazism. If we are to avoid a fate like that of Germany, we must find out what made such a fate possible. We must find out what, at root, is required to turn a country, Germany or any other, into a Nazi dictatorship; and then we must uproot that root. We
~ Leonard Peikoff
Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.
~ Libba Bray
I found her. There was blood everywhere. I slipped and fell in it.' 'That's awful,' Ling said when she found her voice again. 'It was awful. I loved those pants.
~ Libba Bray
Can I tell you a secret? I don't like ghosts very much. They are terrible people.
~ Libba Bray
Their jaws unhinged and they vomited out an oily black substance, which fell to the floor like a river of snakes.
~ Libba Bray
You look like you're about to puke, he observed, pushing his cart forward. With a quick, inner shake she gathered herself and cut him off to take her rightful position as lead cart. I was trying to imagine you as a kid. It was horrifying.
~ Linda Howard
look at him. But I can't. Too many things are exploding in my head, and the memories are both simpler and more horrible
~ Lisa Gardner
For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.
~ Jordan Peele
Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.
~ Justin Simien
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
~ Albert Einstein
He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knew it, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delirium of his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.
~ Aldous Huxley
Destruir su condicionamiento ante la muerte con aquella indecente explosión de dolor, como si la muerte fuese algo horrible, como si la vida de una persona pudiera llegar a importar tanto!
~ Aldous Huxley
Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of contradictions. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberating than is the descent into horror.
~ Aldous Huxley
LENINA felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday. As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity. It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in time again.
~ Aldous Huxley
Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individualized existence.
~ Aldous Huxley
Da, e lucru îngrozitor s? cazi în mâinile r?ului reîncarnat. - Atunci, întreab? doctorul Poole, de ce continuaÈ›i s?-L veneraÈ›i? - De ce arunci mâncare unui tigru care mâr?ie?Ca s? câÈ™tigi un moment de respiro. Ca s? amâni oroarea inevitabilului, fie È™i pentru câteva minute. ?i pe P?mânt e la fel ca-n Iad - dar cel puÈ›in eÈ™ti tot pe P?mânt.
~ Aldous Huxley
Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.
~ Aldous Huxley
This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurk The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong.
~ Aleister Crowley
La prima cosa è il mio nome, la seconda quegli occhi, la terza un pensiero, la quarta la notte che viene, la quinta quei corpi straziati, la sesta è la fame, la settima orrore, l'ottava i fantasmi della follia, la nona è carne e la decima è un uomo che mi guarda e non mi uccide.
~ Alessandro Baricco