Existential Horror Quotes

#1. She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime

Andrew Hixson

#3. Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard.

H.P. Lovecraft

#4. It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.

Derek Raymond

#5. It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.

George Carlin

#6. These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.

Robert Orben

#7. Therein lies the power of culture: it redeems horror by transforming it into existential wisdom. If the spirit of the trial succeeds in annihilating this century's culture, nothing will remain of us but a memory of its atrocities sung by a chorus of children.

Milan Kundera

#8. From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

Arundhati Roy

#9. Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

Anne Wilson Schaef

#10. Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

Lu Xun

#11. Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

Mark Twain

#12. Even a zombie lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assault of a million fluorocarbon spray cans of deodorant.

Stephen King

#13. When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Rockefeller

#14. I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high.

Simone Elkeles

#15. You always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line.

Poppy Z. Brite