Horror Quotes

I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

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

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind.

Consistency is the horror of the world.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

The charm of horror only tempts the strong

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Wha...what are you smiling for...? If I'd swallowed that needle, I'd have died! It's not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!!

I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view.

It's cool to see everybody come together and do their own thing, but there's never been any drama. I never saw any on the X-Men set, and I never saw any on the Horror Story set.

I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.