Horror Quotes

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

Even smiling makes my face ache.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

I don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want.

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

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

Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.

I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

Whatever you do....don't fall asleep.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

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

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

Oh, I love horror movies, yeah.

I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.