Horror Quotes

It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

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.

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

Japan is the only country that can appeal to the world about the horror of the atomic bomb and the misery of the bombing.

Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.

Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.