Horror Quotes

Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history o...

The horror had begun.

Fear of night. Fear of not night.

The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the ast...

Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Fami...

It had all begun on the elevated. There was a particular little sea of roots he had grown into the h...

It's a rotten world, Miss Millick,' said Mr. Wran, talking at the window. 'Fit for another morbid gr...

Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when ...

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, co...

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to...

At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, show...

She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables whi...

It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? To be dragged under?

The discovery of the horror tale at an early age was fortuitous for me. This sort of tale serves, in...

THE THING WAS AN EXPERT IN HORROR, BUT THIS HUMAN HORROR INDEED EXCEEDED ANY OTHER POSSIBLE FATE. NO...

Trolls have existed on this planet for as long as humans. This is what I was told and what I transla...

He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom bu...

Is it...can we...is it safe?" Tub checked the lot but he seemed unconcerned. "Coach Lawrence nabbed ...

I'm serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or a...

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

I am lost! Someone has taken over my mind and is controlling it! Someone is in command of all my act...

Daylight does not lend itself to terror: objects and people are plain to see; and we encounter there...

Solitude is obviously dangerous for people with active brains. We need men around us who have ideas ...

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so b...

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voic...

Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am no...

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

Damn it, it wasn’t quite fresh enough!

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a p...

As I shivered and brooded on the casting of that brain-blasting shadow, I knew that I had at last pr...

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the ev...

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will ...

Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demon...

By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins.

I have seen the dark universe yawningWhere the black planets roll without aim,Where they roll in the...

I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes look...

Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasp...

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. ...

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in abso...

If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in o...

That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear...

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violati...

A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present;...

The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the read...

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars...

In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying c...

He talked about terrible meetings in lonely places, of cyclopean ruins in the heart of the Maine woo...

There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a p...

I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors ...

For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or iden...

this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod

People says it gets easier. People are stupid."-Vlad

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To my...

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak spec...

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned ent...

It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance i...

From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps...

A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certa...

This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.

Snape looked horrified. 'You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?''Don't look...

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere,...

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a...

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it tha...

It's not the books by Stephen King that I read,I need protection from the things in my head . . .

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,I need protection from the things in my head . . .

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scari...

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leapi...

Carroll was eleven years old when he saw The Haunting in The Oregon Theater. He had gone with his co...

The dead pull the living down.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scari...

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leapi...

Carroll was eleven years old when he saw The Haunting in The Oregon Theater. He had gone with his co...

The dead pull the living down.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know....

I grew up loving monsters. I'm just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster...

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to ou...

One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, "I am lying...

He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a...

It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims a...

An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best ...

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creatu...

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes ho...

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and ho...

Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly a...

The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed....