Definition of Horror

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Horror

A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.

A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.

That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.

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Horror Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.
Curtis Lemay

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

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
Dean Koontz

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

Horror Translations

horror in Afrikaans is horror
horror in Danish is afsky
horror in Dutch is gruwel, gruweldaad, verschrikking
horror in German is Abscheu {f}
horror in Italian is orrore, spaventi, orrore
horror in Latin is atrox
horror in Norwegian is redsel, forferdelse
horror in Spanish is abominacion, horror, susto

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