“ One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses. ”
- Robin Wood- Copy
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“ The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture. ”
- John Carpenter- Copy
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“ If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies. ”
- George A. Romero- Copy
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“ Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new. ”
- Nicholas Gordon- Copy
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“ I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. ”
- David Cronenberg- Copy
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“ There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. ”
- Anne Rice- Copy
- 3.4K
“ My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 3.7K
“ All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. ”
- Alice Sebold- Copy
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“ Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image. ”
- Irving Layton- Copy
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“ I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ”
- John Carpenter- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. ”
- Conor Cruise O’Brien- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The horror of that moment, the King went on, "I shall never forget." "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it.". ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 3.9K
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