Quotes about Horror
They believed that in watching these burnings and dissections, they had an actual window into hell itself.
— Eric Metaxas
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Anger, The spring of all life's horror.
— Euripides
The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it
— Soren Kierkegaard
Even if the words were terrible, even though it were a Shakespeare, a Byron, or a Shelley who broke the silence,20 the word always retains its redeeming power, because all despair and all the horror of evil expressed in one word are not as awful as silence.
— Soren Kierkegaard
He whistled at the thought: all those little people down there, surrounded by all this beauty, could not see the horror all around them, the impending storm about to swallow them up, the cancerous darkness that first blinds.
— Frank Peretti
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
— Oscar Wilde
There were moments of overwhelming lassitude, when, like the victim of some poison which leaves the brain clear, but holds the body motionless, she saw herself domesticated with the Horror, accepting its perpetual presence as one of the fixed conditions of life.
— Edith Wharton
The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.
— Edmund Burke
the kindred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and excite horror at the idea of their becoming aliens, rivals, enemies.
— Alexander Hamilton
Getting on a plane and discovering that your seat belt won't fit around you was a moment of extreme horror. It was very hard to ignore.
— Shonda Rhimes
Jews, listen to me,' she cried. I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames.
— Elie Wiesel