Horror Quotes - Page 38

• Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought

  Willard Fiske

  Mind, Battle, Woe

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• What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Cutting, Men, Yawning

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• The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

  E. M. Forster

  Age, Middle, Middle Ages

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• I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Drama, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Blood, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.176, Dial Press

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• I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

  John Dryden

  Morning, Night, Light

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.458, Pearson Education

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• No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Brother, War, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4181, Simon and Schuster

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• I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

  Jay Baruchel

  Writing, Years, Nine

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Brother, Children, Kids

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• After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Vegetables, Civilization

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

  Ron Kovic

  Pain, War, Suffering

  "The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq" by Ron Kovic, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2006.

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• When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.

  Eli Roth

  Want, Violence

  "'Hostel' Helmer Eli Roth Says Horror Should Have No Limits: 'It's All Fake'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. March 27, 2007.

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• The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.

  Eli Roth

  Law, Scary, Negative

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• If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

  Eli Roth

  Jobs, Home, Blood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

  Eli Roth

  Eye, Ears, Want

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• Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.

  David J

  Writing, Long, Twists

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• I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Facts, Logic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . .

  Aleksandr Kuprin

  Aleksandr Kuprin (2015). “Yama: The Pit”, p.6, Booklassic

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• I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.

  George A. Romero

  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

  George A. Romero

  Horror Genre, Film, Dies

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

  Dario Argento

  Secret, Skins, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

  Dario Argento

  Definitions, Emotion, Anticipation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.

  Mark Gatiss

  War, Home, Europe

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• When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at.

  Mark Gatiss

  Book, Eight, Looks

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• The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.

  Mark Gatiss

  Men, Horror Genre, Desire

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