Horror Quotes

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

Strength, Courage, Experience

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

Power, Mind, Reality

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

Bad, Battle, Soul

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'
Marilyn Monroe

Girl, Woman, Friend

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

Beautiful, Problems, Speak

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
William S. Burroughs

Special, Alcohol, National

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

Easy, Whatever, Genius

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes

Evil, Forgive, Face

Nevertheless 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.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music, Greatest, Point

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Aleister Crowley

Everyone, Fact, Guilty

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
H. P. Lovecraft

After, Strange, Far

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

Life, Anyone, Belief

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence

Death, Down, Another

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
Quentin Tarantino

Morning, Start, Until

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.
Martha Beck

Forward, Moving, Journey

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
David Byrne

Death, True, Try

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes

Minds, Facts, Generous

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
Theodor Adorno

Beyond, Reach, Psychology

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Good, Home, Cry

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

Cannot, Story, Reading

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Charles Baudelaire

Life, Heart, Feelings

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.
Christopher Hitchens

Around, Korea, Spots

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
Morris Dees

Education, Equality, Children

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
Elie Wiesel

Human, May, Remember

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Bela Lugosi

Play, Tongue, Cheek

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
Bela Lugosi

Women, Suffering, Blood

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
Robert Bly

Love, Beginning, Emptiness

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Charles Baudelaire

Poetry, Fact, She

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.
Bela Lugosi

Love, Women, Cry

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