Terror Quotes - Page 13

• I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.

  Mary Oliver

  Ideas, Red, Thirst

  Mary Oliver (2012). “House of Light”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Echoes, Scary Stories

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• Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Bearable

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• It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Elderly, Community

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.60, Random House

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• A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

  Anatole France

  Military, War, Patriotic

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• The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.

  David Gemmell

  Night, Capacity

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• Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Conquer The World, World

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Hard Times, Animal

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• Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Fall, Simple, Light

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• We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Dream, Pain, Real

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.359, Spectra

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• Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stars, Night, Darkness

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• Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

  Max Brooks

  Two, Water, Childhood

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.145, Broadway Books

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• The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Boredom, Overcoming, Married

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.

  David Gemmell

  Fall, Sleep, Agony

  David Gemmell (2003). “White Wolf: A Novel of Druss the Legend”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Silence, Awful, Behinds

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.459, Scholastic Inc.

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• Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You better take a more civil tone with me, Cam. I’m not one of your flaccid Celts to shake in terror of your wrath. You want to fight, boy, bring it on. (Dionysus) Whoa, hang on a second. Let’s save the fighting for when you two take over the world, okay? (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Boys, Wrath

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.448, St. Martin's Griffin

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• "Are you all right?” he asked Olivia. His heart was still racing with terror that she’d been hurt. “I heard a woman scream.”
  “Ah, that would have been me,” Sebastian said.
  Harry looked down on his cousin, face frozen in disbelief. “You made that noise?”
  “It hurt,” Sebastian bit off. Harry fought not to laugh. “You scream like a leettle girl."

  Julia Quinn

  Girl, Cousin, Hurt

  "What Happens In London". Book by Julia Quinn, 2011.

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• Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

  Emily Bronte

  Blood, Broken, Useless

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking." "That was not a shriek," Jamie said with dignity. "It was a husky masculine cry of terror.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Running, Doe, Incentives

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.

  Patrick Süskind

  Hands, Smell, Stronger

  Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Eye, Personality

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

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• There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Silence, Pages, Awful

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• a salesman is an it that stinks to please but whether to please itself or someone else makes no more difference than if it sells hate condoms education snakeoil vac uumcleaners terror strawberries democ ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair

  e. e. cummings

  Hate, Hair, Differences

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.86, Grove Press

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• I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sacrifice, Thinking, World

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.112, Diversion Books

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• You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem.

  Michael Grant

  Hero, Thinking, Looks

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