Terror Quotes

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced ...

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-ma...

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in...

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting tog...

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Silently we went round and round,And through each hollow mindThe memory of dreadful thingsRushed lik...

Fear envelops bones like new skin,envelops blood with night’s skin,the earth moves beneath the soles...

Then the voice - which identified itself as the prince of this world, the only being who really know...

I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise;...

His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himse...

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me...

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me a...

But not you, O girl, nor yet his mother,stretched his eyebrows so fierce with expectation.Not for yo...

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. ("Interval In Sunlight")

It’s horrible," she said.He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought ...

It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jaw...

What—in other words—would modern boredom be without terror? One of the most boring documents of all ...

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capital...

Every morningI wake up with the newsof bloodshed.I feel my body,desperate to know whetherI’m still a...

Thank God,my name isn’t in the list of thosewho died or werekilled yesterday!

Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified.

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That...

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlighte...

The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible ...

Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their ...

I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the o...

His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of ...

And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of peopl...

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and...

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of ...

Oh, it’s mysterious lamplit evenings, here in the galaxy, one after the other. It’s one of those nig...

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a...

Something, most certainly, happens to a diver’s emotions underwater. It is not merely a side effect ...

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that come...

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to m...

There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation o...

the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face. . . . What they abominate about ‘th...

What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought t...

... A lobotomy involved some kind of rod or probe inserted through the eyesocket,the term was always...

I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and t...

Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordle...

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, ...

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes ...

I drove all night, northeast, and once again I felt it was literature I had been confronting these p...

Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he ...

Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the m...

But it isn’t only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people....

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is ...

Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.

The essence of the Revolution is to abolish the attainment of unqualified power of man over man eith...

By this time I was nolonger very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed thelimi...

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in abso...

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true ...

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc...

What he'd find there, of course, was up to Pete. But he was sure there were magicians in Tampico and...

In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creature...

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be...

Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the univers...

This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might...

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

Draco, do it, or stand aside so one of us -" screeched the woman, but at that precise moment the doo...

I opened my eyes; how could I keep them shut when I could not sleep? The same darkness brooded over ...

Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki...

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again witho...