Horror Quotes - Page 40

• I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

  Helen Keller

  War, Looks, Feuds

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• I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Names, Hollywood, Looks

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• I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

  Anne Stevenson

  Century, Glad, Seventies

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• Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

  Norman Mailer

  Film, Hours, Lost

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel”, p.54, Random House

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• So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children, Father, Law

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• One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Writing, Race

  Letter to "Weird Tales" editor Edwin Baird, printed in "Weird Tales" 3, no. 3 (March 1924); Quoted in "Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 122), 2000.

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• In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.48, University of Texas Press

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• I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

  Lynne Truss

  People, Giving, Speechless

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

  John Barth

  Opinion

  John Barth (2014). “Lost in the Funhouse”, p.20, Anchor

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• It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

  Martin Amis

  Fashion, Thinking, Half

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

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• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

  Aleister Crowley

  Integrity, Ambition, Principles

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• Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.

  Les Dawson

  Wife, Ugly, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Order, Perfect, Forerunners

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• How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?

  Eugene Delacroix

  Beautiful, World, This World

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• Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

  Nadine Gordimer

  People, Newspapers, Happenings

  Nadine Gordimer (2013). “A Sport of Nature”, p.32, A&C Black

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• There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

  Vaclav Havel

  Intellectual, Doubt, Slumber

  "Words on Words" by Vaclav Havel, www.nybooks.com. January 18, 1990.

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• I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

  James Herbert

  Hate, Writing, Violence

  "James Herbert on his daily routine, writing The Rats and how he hates violence". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 12, 2012.

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• I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

  James Herbert

  Voice, Natural, University

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• If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.

  Marshall Savage

  Ignorance, Moon, Night

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• Some people have got advice, some people have got horror stories. I like people that look you in the eye with a glow and say "It's gonna be cool."

  Russell Crowe

  Inspirational, Baby, Eye

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• San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

  Christopher Moore

  Beautiful, Dark, Light

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• If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Writing, Doe

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• It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

  Christopher Lasch

  Bourgeoisie, Peculiar, Attractive

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• Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Dream, Book, Office

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• The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Shopping, People, Stories

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