Quotes about Terror

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

I love, love, love, love horror movies.

Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round. She dressed up her fear, so that she could look at it—in the form of fever, rats, unemployment. The real thing was taboo—death coming nearer every year in the strange place: everybody packing up and leaving, while she stayed in a cemetery no one visited, in a big aboveground tomb.

From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.