Horror Quotes

The divine is always abominable."Houses Under The Sea

Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,that soft summer morninground a turning in the path,the di...

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who ...

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;We find delight in the most loathsome things;Some fu...

the people are the biggesthorror show on earth,have been forcenturies.

A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face wit...

She collected herself, and rose from the floor. “Until you have a better grasp on what we’re dealing...

As Roran watched, the man's arms, neck, and chest shriveled, and his bones appeared in sharp relief-...

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the pe...

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable...

Dorothea: "What the fuck are you?"Nix: "A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind.

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters li...

The dead have highways." Clive Barker

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Li...

Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads ou...

Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the bas...

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of ...

The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.

Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days ...

Living in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he’d never felt more alive.

There was one moment of intersection, when the topic of hate-watching came up. "Why do you watch TV ...

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curs...

Horror is the law of the world of living creatures, and civilization is concerned with masking that ...

A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks fo...

I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays a...

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too...

Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’...

Now the screams were awful to hear as men burned like candles all along the deck. Black smoke billow...

I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so ...

In March of 1915, all three of Lord and Lady Chetwynd-Pitt's sons'd been gassed, blown up or machine...

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared wha...

Either the gates of hell had opened, or Tom had lost his mind; for there could be nothing like this ...

The narrator, I think, must succeed in frightening himself before he can think of frightening his re...

Or do you like being frightened?”Hugh, though generally intelligent, is dense in certain ways; this ...

Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because so...

There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they mus...

It was obvious from their expressions that they believed the wellbeing of R.’s inhabitants was endan...

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the ...

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.

I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! ...

A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to acc...

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume...

This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --...

To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetr...

I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no ...

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic...

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is ...

For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called ...

THEY are afraid of nothing,' I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. 'Together, they...

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When as...

The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being s...

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...