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3. “The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.”
Gustave Flaubert
Existence, Parenthood, Horror, Life, Agony
4. “Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.'” Chuck Palahniuk Horror, Social Issues, Feminism, Abortion, Movies
8. “Months later, after liberation, I met a friend from the old camp. He related to me how he, as camp policeman, had searched for a piece of human flesh that was missing from a pile of corpses. He confiscated it from a pot in which he found it cooking. Cannibalism had broken out. I had left just in time.” Viktor Frankl Cannibalism, Survival, Horror, Concentration Camps, Human Condition
9. “Disgust, horror and pity are emotions that our spectator could not really feel anymore. The sufferers, the dying and the dead, became such commonplace sights to him after a few weeks of camp life that they could not move him anymore.” Viktor Frankl Disgust, Horror, Desensitization, Camp Life, Emotional Impact
10. “Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a ‘real’ war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other’s heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?” Arundhati Roy War, Horror, Nuclear Threat, Societal Anxiety, Vigilance
16. “It was morning when I saw it, but shadow lurked always there. The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them, and the floor was too soft with the dank moss and mattings of infinite years of decay.” H.P. Lovecraft Atmosphere, Natural Environment, Unease, Horror, Decay
18. “I can still see Herbert West under the sinister electric light as he injected his reanimating solution into the arm of the headless body. The scene I cannot describe – I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.” H.P. Lovecraft Madness, Horror, Grotesque Imagery, Experimentation, Body Horror
20. “Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse’s men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and the muffled tom-toms. There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other.” H.P. Lovecraft Horror, Atmosphere, Sound, Madness, Humanity Vs Beastliness
21. “This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his claws into my ankle, unconscious of their effect; for on every side of the chamber the walls were alive with nauseous sound – the verminous slithering of ravenous, gigantic rats.” H.P. Lovecraft Horror, Fear, Sensory Description, Rats, Atmosphere
22. “I shuddered oddly in some of the far corners; for certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting, and inexplicable nature, and made me wonder what manner of men could have made and frequented such a temple.” H.P. Lovecraft Mystery, Horror, Ancient Rituals, Human History, Unsettling Curiosity
26. “I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.” H.P. Lovecraft Disillusionment, Violence, Horror, Literature, Cynicism
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Explore the best timeless quotes on Horror, including thoughts on Horror. Discover the best Horror quotes by renowned authors.
3. “The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.”
Gustave Flaubert Existence, Parenthood, Horror, Life, Agony
4. “Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.'”
Chuck Palahniuk Horror, Social Issues, Feminism, Abortion, Movies
8. “Months later, after liberation, I met a friend from the old camp. He related to me how he, as camp policeman, had searched for a piece of human flesh that was missing from a pile of corpses. He confiscated it from a pot in which he found it cooking. Cannibalism had broken out. I had left just in time.”
Viktor Frankl Cannibalism, Survival, Horror, Concentration Camps, Human Condition
9. “Disgust, horror and pity are emotions that our spectator could not really feel anymore. The sufferers, the dying and the dead, became such commonplace sights to him after a few weeks of camp life that they could not move him anymore.”
Viktor Frankl Disgust, Horror, Desensitization, Camp Life, Emotional Impact
10. “Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a ‘real’ war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other’s heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?”
Arundhati Roy War, Horror, Nuclear Threat, Societal Anxiety, Vigilance
16. “It was morning when I saw it, but shadow lurked always there. The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them, and the floor was too soft with the dank moss and mattings of infinite years of decay.”
H.P. Lovecraft Atmosphere, Natural Environment, Unease, Horror, Decay
18. “I can still see Herbert West under the sinister electric light as he injected his reanimating solution into the arm of the headless body. The scene I cannot describe – I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.”
H.P. Lovecraft Madness, Horror, Grotesque Imagery, Experimentation, Body Horror
20. “Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse’s men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and the muffled tom-toms. There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other.”
H.P. Lovecraft Horror, Atmosphere, Sound, Madness, Humanity Vs Beastliness
21. “This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his claws into my ankle, unconscious of their effect; for on every side of the chamber the walls were alive with nauseous sound – the verminous slithering of ravenous, gigantic rats.”
H.P. Lovecraft Horror, Fear, Sensory Description, Rats, Atmosphere
22. “I shuddered oddly in some of the far corners; for certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting, and inexplicable nature, and made me wonder what manner of men could have made and frequented such a temple.”
H.P. Lovecraft Mystery, Horror, Ancient Rituals, Human History, Unsettling Curiosity
26. “I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.”
H.P. Lovecraft Disillusionment, Violence, Horror, Literature, Cynicism
