Horrors Quotes

The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere — John Mortimer

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. — Thomas Jefferson

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

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world. — Hillary DePiano

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import. — Bram Stoker

No matter what happened to you, no matter what horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl. — Karin Slaughter

China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation. — Andre Vltchek

The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that others don't have. — J.K. Rowling

Finally, faced with horrors both intolerable and unavoidable, I chose madness. — Alan Moore

In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience. — Douglas Alexander

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother — Anna Freud

I already did a cave of horrors thing with you a few weeks ago, and it wasn't awesome. — Shannon Messenger

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event. — Stonewall Jackson

For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget. — Jerry Speyer

You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet. — Robert M. Pirsig

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events. — Tariq Ramadan

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution. — Russ Feingold

but underneath that lurked horrors, like a syphilitic dick hidden under a blanket. — Kevin Hearne

The Pillar of Darkness has been a horror confined to Venice, which seemed - to the Paduans at least - a natural setting for horrors. — Susanna Clarke

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors. — Barry Lyga

We'd all lived through our own horrors, and whether they showed on our skin or not, we all bore scars, didn't we? — Madeline Sheehan

All horrors are dulled by routine. — Roberto Bolano

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. — Richard Price

The horrors of the world in general upset me. I cry when I think about how lucky I am with my lovely little family. — Sara Cox

Her world is alien to the horrors I know. All the child sees is love. — Pierce Brown

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. — Desmond Tutu

I was able to do a lot of music on 'SCTV,' and I was really lucky to do a musical; I got to sing the part of Seymour in 'Little Shop of Horrors.' — Rick Moranis

The grand army would soon be upon us, and war with all its attendant horrors."24 — John Desantis

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. — Carrie Snow

If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors. — Perry DeAngelis

Did I never tell you Sassicaia makes me horny? — Steve Emmett

War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days. — Zlata Filipovic

I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think? — Tove Jansson

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now. — John Benjamin Hickey

Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. "Why — Mark Lawrence

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. — Tahir Shah

Beware the gods and their horrors. — Kevin Emerson

However, there is something worse than idealizing the past - or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it. — Tony Judt

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors. — John Kennedy Toole

Daylight might have answered yes; but darkness and the horrors of death said no. — William Golding

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! — Jules Verne

Horrors might burst out of them. But something must burst out, sometimes, if men are not machines. — D.H. Lawrence

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with. — Paddy Considine

Horrorshow is right, friend. A real show of horrors. — Anthony Burgess

It was becoming a nightmare. Ronan could hear the night horrors coming, in love with his blood and his sadness. — Maggie Stiefvater

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors. — Kirby Wright

What kind of times are these, when
To talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors? — Bertolt Brecht

I don't inflict horrors on readers. — Alan Furst

What you or I would recognize as an alien invasion by tentacled horrors from beyond spacetime Angleton would see as a teachable moment. — Charles Stross

Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire. — Jennifer Armintrout

Horrors from beyond the veil of time and space are coming to eat us so shut up, sounds like a pretty good draw card for a leader to have. — Yahtzee Croshaw

they were excited by these bombings in a way that only victims of esoteric, infrequent tragedies are motivated by horrors — Karan Mahajan

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence. — H.P. Lovecraft

Grace had learned long ago that the true horrors of this world were other people. — Mindy McGinnis

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism — Ronald Reagan

But as I got older I realized that the horrors are all done by men, twisting the word of God to suit their own desires for power. — April White

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors. — Alan Moore

Small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation. — Stephen King

Running from horrors doesn't help. The only way to deal with them is to meet them head-on. — Peter David

The trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only to easy to imagine ... — Terry Pratchett

What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control. — Jerome A. Miller

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate. — William Shakespeare

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life. — Jean Giraudoux

Adults do not forget the horrors and shamings of their childhood, but those feelings tend to lose their immediacy — Stephen King

Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail. — John Milton

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. — Evelyn Waugh

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. — Bernadette Devlin

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. — Alice James

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. — John Boyd Orr

Because words are powerful; they can hurt and wound, and one word can lead to a thousand horrors. So don't forget to be impeccable with your words. — Kunal Nayyar

Crawling eldritch horrors don't get planning permission unless they're Trump's hairpiece.) — Charles Stross

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. — William S. Burroughs

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors. — Horace Greeley

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors. — Richard Engel

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways
through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war. — Kenneth Kaunda

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago? — Randall Terry

Maybe life is just a straight shot from the horrors of grade school to the horrors of the nursing home. — Sue Grafton

If you do not know the horrors and the tragedies of life, you can be sure that you know nothing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We fixed him just by telling him that he wasn't crazy, that the horrors he was seeing were real. He seemed oddly comforted by that. He was a lawyer. — David Wong

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension. — Nikola Tesla

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight. — Alex Gibney

How impossible, though, to turn one's back on all the horrors in the world; there had to be another way to live. — Edan Lepucki

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff. — Sia Furler

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. — Nicolas Chamfort

We're thankful for the horrors we are used to. The unknown ones are worst — Ingmar Bergman

I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much too much of the worse horrors of peace. — H.L. Mencken

I stumble through a carnival of horrors — Anne Rice

Grace, you can accept my secrets, my horrors and my friendship but not a simple dress? Robert asked, hearing my thoughts. - Falling From Grace — S.L. Naeole

In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors. — John Robinson

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. — Stephen King

lucky life isn't one long string of horrors. — Gerald Stern

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. — Anne Stevenson

There are reasons to go on living despite what horrors may come in your life. And love informs those reasons. — Chris Adrian

In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. — Elena Ferrante

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. — George R R Martin

We sort of understood abstractly the idea that there are only two kinds of software projects: failures and future legacy horrors. — Peter Weinberger

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting. — Charlie Munger