Living Horror Quotes

#1. War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror

Ray Bradbury

#2. You broke me out of the grasp of a living horror when I thought all hope was gone. You gave me the opportunity to crawl back to life when no one else could."
She glances over at me, her eyes shining in the dark. "You're a hero, Penryn, whether you like it or not.

Susan Ee

#3. I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.

Mary Page Keller

#4. Have I not indeed been living in a dream? And am I not now dying a victim to the horror and the mystery of the wildest of all sublunary visions?

Oscar Wilde

#5. Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

Emmanuelle Vaugier

#6. Stay away from us!" Michael ordered. He was looking at Nora in horror, as if he couldn't believe what she was saying.
"No one's trying to get near you," Chas snorted. "I don't do living guys. Call me prejudiced.

Lia Habel

#7. I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Mary Shelley

#8. Each person here, except me, was living out his worst nightmare, facing his biggest fear - even the dog. It was under a counter, staring horror-stricken at a bowl of generic dog food. I

James Patterson

#9. All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.

B.B. Wynter

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

Arundhati Roy

#11. Horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our scientific progress, there are still things out there that defy the rational, and can scare the living daylights out of us.

Peter James

#12. The dead have existed for as long as the living, give or take a few years. But what good has that done them?

James Aquilone

#13. It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.

But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.

Rin Chupeco

#14. With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of all earthly hope, bereft of every consolation, he was rendered as poor as mortal can possibly
be on this side of the grave.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

#15. Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.

Christopher Walken

#16. Fear is flooding over me, like water.
The living know nothing. Teach me, dead ones, how to die without fear, or at least without horror. Because death is senseless, as is life.

Mesa Selimovic

#17. You state here that you believe your daughter, Amy, is no longer with you; that the girl living in your house - who looks and sounds exactly like Amy - is not in fact your daughter. Is this correct? Is this still the case?

A. Ashley Straker

#18. Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#19. I know you, Ruth Ann Carver. I know you better than you know yourself. You think you do things right. You think you're a paragon of right living. This is a self-told lie, one bolstered by your coddling parents and grandparents.

Carolyn Lee Adams

#20. Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

Jim Harrison

#21. When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

John Donne

#22. The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway station, full to bursting. Whole trees bristling with living noise makers, mutilated erections, horror.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#23. Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

Kate Christensen

#24. The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

Alexander Pope

#25. I wanted to curl up into a fetal position and start sucking my thumb, let my tears and dripping saliva pool under me.
Sorry. I tried living, tried being sentient. Can't do it. Can't live in the same universe with that.

David Wong

#26. When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.

Nenia Campbell

#27. Well, she asked, how do you gentlemen like living in a haunted house?
It's perfectly fine, Luke said, perfectly fine. It gives me an excuse to have a drink in the middle of the night.

Shirley Jackson

#28. Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature.

Elena Ferrante

#29. Alex: "You asked earlier why us humans fear death. I suppose it is the unknown - not knowing what awaits on the other side. But now I know, and I still fear it."
The Darkness: "?"
Alex: "But now I fear the living - in fact, I now fear life more than death!

Scott Beadle

#30. This world inside which sentience has awoken, uninvited, is the stuff of all nightmares, a living daymare, a defiled experiment draped in ethical ugliness, and is it therefore any surprise that a child's first reaction upon discovering themselves alive inside it is to scream in absolute horror?

John Zande

#31. Death was a living creature. Death was a man tormented by his past. Death was once a human.

S.K.N. Hammerstone

#32. I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.

Francis Marion Crawford

#33. The dead pull the living down.

Joe Hill

#34. The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

Michelle Tea

#35. Better than cancer or Alzheimer's, that prime horror of anyone who has spent his life making a living by his wits.

Stephen King

#36. Horror was written all over his face as he began to understand that that child of his wasn't stupid, or immune to what he had done in the past. It had greatly affected her.

Diyar Harraz

#37. Life's a bitch and then you keep on fucking living.

Will Elliott

#38. Living in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he'd never felt more alive.

Clive Barker

#39. Do you know what it's like to kill a man? You just pushed a knife into living, moving skin and you realize you pierced a heart that beats against your sharp knife.
-Lucas Tyrel

L'Poni Baldwin

#40. The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,
made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain,
danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.

Oscar Wilde