Horror Quotes

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. (Norman Mailer)
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Where there is no imagination, there is no horror. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! View quote
Pablo Picasso
The passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing 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. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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. View quote
David Cronenberg
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. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
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. View quote
Karen Blixen
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. (Stendhal)
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more. View quote
Bela Lugosi
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. View quote
Conor Cruise O'Brien
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. View quote
Alexander Pope
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away. View quote
Norman Mailer
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. View quote
Anne Rice
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror. View quote
William H. Macy
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. (Robert Delaunay)
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. View quote
Paul Bowles
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey. View quote
Martha Beck
I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom. View quote
Gerard Butler
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets? View quote
Cornelia Funke