Quotes of Horror - somelinesforyou

“ I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ 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

“ 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

“ Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ His horror is wild, but it is a sane horror. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ 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

“ If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies. ”

- George A. Romero

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued. ”

- Helen Keller

“ 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

“ 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

“ All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ 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

“ Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality. ”

- Unknown

“ Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. ”

- Sophocles

“ 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

“ God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image. ”

- Irving Layton

“ I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ”

- John Carpenter

“ 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

“ Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. ”

- Conor Cruise O’Brien

“ One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life. ”

- Unknown

“ Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. ”

- Carlos Fuentes

“ 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

“ The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ 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

“ What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? ”

- Sydney Smith

“ I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. ”

- Josh Billings
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