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Quotes About Horrifying

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
~ Ansel Adams
Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.
~ Brigitte Nielsen
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
~ Franz Kafka
In the real world, there's probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize it and internalize it.
~ Daniel Kaluuya
I had not been exposed to these kinds of situations, so this event was not trivial to me. Instead it was horrifying. It was also shameful: when a shameful thing is done to you, the shamefulness rubs off on you. You feel dirtied.
~ Margaret Atwood
I remember seeing 'The Babadook' and I thought that was such a wonderfully dramatic story but told with these horrifying elements, and that's incredible. It did give me nightmares but I was glad that I watched it.
~ Betty Gabriel
I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
~ Rachel Corrie
In politics continental Europe was infantile horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
~ Saul Bellow
What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.
~ Chris Van Allsburg
I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
~ Harmony Korine
'BloodRayne' was an abomination... It's a horrifying and preposterous movie.
~ Michael Madsen
I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.
~ Lee Bermejo
Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.
~ Daniel Kaluuya
Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.
~ Graham Greene
Does anyone else find this shit completely terrifying
~ Ernest Cline
As a radio DJ, I was on WRIN-WLQI. And even when I repeat it, it's horrifying. My morning sign-on, because it was in Rensselaer, Indiana, it'd be, 'You're on the air with Jim O'Heir in Rensselaer.' Ugh, oh my God, pathetic.
~ Jim O'Heir
Everything he saw was unspeakably menacing and horrible; and whenever one of the organic entities appeared by its motions to be noticing him, he felt a stark, hideous fright which generally jolted him awake.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Dear God, Max! What happened to your face?" Berg hysterically asked. She shrugged, the quills in her face wiggling when she did. "A porcupine attacked me. Flung its quills at me." She glanced around, seemingly not bothered by the many—many—quills hanging from her face like some weird, horrifying mask.
~ Shelly Laurenston
multiplied—the South went through the Reconstruction with only one permanent political change: there was no more slavery. The people became no less than what they were to begin with—in some cases they became horrifyingly more.
~ Harper Lee
The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold.
~ Gina Miller
I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody,I was taught to love and forgive,which I do have in my heart,but please don't believe these crazy, horrifying things.
~ Michael J. Jackson
But our energies are directed far more toward war. Hypnotized by mutual mistrust, almost never concerned for the species or the planet, the nations prepare for death. And because what we are doing is so horrifying, we tend not to think of it much. But what we do not consider we are unlikely to put right. Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse.
~ Carl Sagan
Life ain't a drama. And life isn't just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it's truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.
~ Daniel Kaluuya
And here is my secret. Heed this well. The weapon of the godless needs no hand to wield it. The weapon of the godless wields itself. It is without fear. It is empty of guilt and disdainful of retribution. It is all that and more, but one thing it is not: a liar. No slaying in the name of a higher power, no promises of redemption. It will not cloak brutality in the zeal that justifies, that absolves. And this is why it is the most horrifying weapon of all.
~ Steven Erikson