Horrify Quotes

#1. Everyone has a story inside them. Some are bedtimes stories, some thrill and others scare and horrify their readers. Find out what your story is and share it with the world.

C.K. Webb

#2. History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

Paula Wall

#3. Such things did not appear to horrify her. She did not feel the abyss opening beneath her feet at the thought of lies becoming truths

George Orwell

#4. To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.

Jonathan Weiner

#5. She can't stand the sight of me, Helen. The one girl, the only girl who's ever really shook me up - and I horrify her.

Josephine Angelini

#6. When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

P.D. Ouspensky

#7. Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.

David Vann

#8. Lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild - I couldn't think of anything that would horrify my parents more. Therefore, the proposition became exponentially more enticing.

Ann Aguirre

#9. We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Dean Inge

#10. Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control.

John Holdren

#11. Ah, mon cher, we are odd, wretched creatures, and if we merely look back over our lives, there's no lack of occasions to amaze and horrify ourselves. Just try.

Albert Camus

#12. Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.

David Brooks

#13. A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it made me sorry, did not horrify me. But what am I experiencing when I read myself as if I were someone else? On which bank am I standing if I see myself in the depths?

Fernando Pessoa

#14. Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?

Helen Yglesias

#15. To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

Eric Stoltz

#16. You'll never get over Ilan. And that will one day horrify you. But soon enough you'll settle on a replacement object for all that love of yours, which does you about as much good as a life jacket in a train wreck.

Rivka Galchen

#17. I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

Stephen King

#18. Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.

Hermann Hesse

#19. Change is just a bend in the road, not the end of the road.

Robin L. Smith

#20. The sky had started off bluffing, convoys of dark clouds scurrying across like sheep to market. But by afternoon a perfect blue canopy stretched from horizon to horizon.

Abraham Verghese

#21. Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. Whiskey to himself "God,
please let this kid be legal, just to make that whole wood thing less disgusting

Amy Lane

#23. Do you understand the sadness of geography?

Michael Ondaatje

#24. And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

Rob Sheffield

#25. But you have to realize, there is no such thing as this tidy little box you think you have to fold up and fit into; it simply does not exist. That's what I'm learning, learning as we speak.

Tanuja Desai Hidier

#26. Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. How wrong we are to ignore our hearts to follow the familiar path.

Nikki Rowe

#28. Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Ron Kaufman

#29. It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

Paddy Ashdown

#30. Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my
revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of
consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation
to death - and I refuse suicide.

Albert Camus

#31. Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

Carlton D. Pearson

#32. Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.

Paramahansa Yogananda