Horror Quotes - Page 23

• I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

  Gemma Chan

  Genre, Enjoy, Rational

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• I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

  Charlie Munger

  Majority, Faces, Arguing

  Source: www.rationalwalk.com

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• Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand

  A. C. Bradley

  Desire, Done, Deeds

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• Theres just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and theres something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, youre usually going to have a good time.

  Drew Goddard

  Fun, People, Together

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• Usually horror in your personal life can translate into some good music. Sometimes. Sometimes it can be really maudlin and boring, and kind of personal.

  Bob Schneider

  Kind, Sometimes, Boring

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

  Avey Tare

  School, Warrior, Thinking

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• He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.

  Joseph Farah

  Fighting, Leader, Revolution

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• I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

  Karen Russell

  Stuff, Sci Fi, Anthology

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• I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when were hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

  Michael Koryta

  Real, Thinking, Ebb And Flow

  "Sanctuary Of Suspense: A Lighthouse On 'The Ridge'". "Weekend Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 10, 2011.

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• Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

  Aaron Stanford

  Icons, Film, Horror Film

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.

  Alexandra Potter

  Missing Someone, Block, Loss

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• Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place where you can play with the ideas of one's sanity, what's real and what's not.

  Michael Rasmussen

  Real, Supernatural Elements, Play

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It's irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Two, Romance, Mind

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

  Johnny Depp

  Revenge, Men, Thinking

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

  Tahir Shah

  Rain, Desert, Forests

  Tahir Shah “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Cells, Punishment

  Herman Melville (1968). “Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life”, p.125, Northwestern University Press

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• And then--a Day as huge
  As Yesterdays in pairs,
  Unrolled its horror in my face--
  Until it blocked my eyes

  Emily Dickinson

  Patience, Gratitude, Eye

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.168, Harvard University Press

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• It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beauty, Simple, Imagination

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract and allusive with horror, and it's very forgiving to the author. You don't necessarily have to take an absolutely positive position. You can just write whatever.

  George A. Romero

  Drama, Writing, Forgiving

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. February 12, 2008.

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• ... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Turkeys

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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• I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Growing Up, Watches, Nightmare

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• There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.

  Wes Craven

  Art, Thinking, Europe

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• Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

  Avey Tare

  Important, Building, Term

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.

  Rebecca West

  War, Fighting, Men

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.143, Open Road Media

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