Top 100 Psychological Thriller Quotes
#1. I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.
Joel David Moore
#2. Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.
Jeffery Deaver
#3. I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.
Brooke Nevin
#4. What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'
Christopher Denham
#5. 'Among Friends' was really well written and had strong characters, and while all the elements were there to make it a great genre film, it also left room for me to put a creative flair on it that wasn't your typical slasher or psychological thriller.
Danielle Harris
#6. When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.
Mark Strong
#7. My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.
Graham Joyce
#8. I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.
Sophia Bush
#9. Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.
Martin Henderson
#10. Have you ever felt like you were constantly in awaiting your own trial?
Ophelia Callens
#12. She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be her excuse tonight.
Kate White
#13. At forty-one, he was still the quintessential bad boy - charming, at ease in his skin, and great-looking, with deep blue eyes, slicked-back brown hair, and the kind of full, sensuous mouth that bad boys seemed to have an unfair market on.
Kate White
#14. Mum, your heart is the same size as your fist,' she told me once in delight, and we both made our hands into fists and held them against our chests and bumped them together: hands as hearts.
Sanjida Kay
#15. Of all the problems and complications in my life, I had not expected love to be one of them.
Stacie Evans
#16. Fear,' he whispered. 'There is nothing quite like it. I love how it looks, I love how it feels, I love how it smells. And I especially love the sound of it.' I felt his tongue on my cheek. 'I even love the taste of it
B.A. Paris
#17. The concrete floor beneath the airbed was hard and uncompromising, digging into her back and making it difficult to breathe. The stale air reeked of disinfectant and shit. And something else that she couldn't quite place. Death, perhaps?
Mark Tilbury
#18. We're strong for each other ! It's what women do!" said Zelda to Pearl
"He Counts Their Tears" by Mary Ann D'Alto
Mary Ann D'Alto
#19. It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn't be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.
Jess C. Scott
#20. In the unfolding of eternity, a single lifetime was just a passing moment...' Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon
Oliver Rixon
#21. He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.
Dianne Harman
#22. It was once said that to hide something from prying eyes you must place it where people can see it.
Micheal Rivers
#24. Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.
Christine Fonseca
#25. Where I'm taking you, no one will ever find us. We'll have all the time in the world for you to grow to love me as much as I love you.
Sanjida Kay
#26. And to take another life was, in many ways, the greatest expression of what it meant to be alive.
Peter Swanson
#27. You may be done with the past, but the past may not be done with you.
Jennifer Dwight
#28. We all have something special in us, it's a matter of finding it, and knowing what to do with it.
Robert Magarian
#29. She pulled off the highway and quickly changed into the burkha.
Dianne Harman
#30. You look good, Clearwater. Been working out?' Danie teased.
'He does, doesn't he?'Janelle agreed. 'This will totally work.'
James' eyes darted back and forth between the girls, his head spinning. 'Wait, what will work?
Brandi Salazar
#32. I don't want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.
Nicci French
#33. Well, be careful," she said, her words deliberate. She quickly twisted her head, as if making certain no one was behind her. When she turned back around, her green eyes were hard and filled with hate. "Because wouldn't it be terrible if you slipped and hurt yourself?
Kate White
#35. It was all her doing. She had cried wolf and the wolf had come.
Jason Hewitt
#36. He could still remember how the first sip of wine made him feel.
Dianne Harman
#37. Mama says love is a sickness of the heart. Only the weak fall under its spell.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#38. Jeopardy, Mom! You have got to get on Jeopardy! Seriously! You could marry Alex Trebek! You could be Alex and Alex Trebek! You could be Alex SQUARED!
Diane L. Randle
#39. A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.
Lorrie Moore
#40. For now, I will say that God endowed humans with a great many powers and forces, and some of the creative, constructive powers can only be passed on through channels of others."
The Guardian
Linden Morningstar
#41. He who fears being watched from the abyss
will be unable to look into it himself.
The truth can only be obtained by pressing forward.
Sadamu Yamashita
#42. Whatever you're not telling me, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat.
Ken Cruickshank
#43. The Old Ones say you can feel your spirit during a Vision Quest.
Dianne Harman
#44. Bruises and dried blood covered her face, giving the illusion of chicken pox.
Yawatta Hosby
#45. Yeah, there has to be a few screws loose when a girl asks you to drop everything to spend a three-day weekend on very short notice, and you say okey dokey without a care in the world.
Yawatta Hosby
#46. The dark edge of the moor and the Cow and Calf rock are crisp against the blue-black sky. I can't see anyone outside, watching us. As I shut the door behind me, I hear a noise. It came from the hall. I feel the hairs rise on the back of my neck.
Sanjida Kay
#47. The word "can't" should be erased from the dictionary. It is an excuse for I don't want to even try.
J.M. Brown
#48. Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for.
Caroline Mitchell
#49. There are some that even beg for the Chamber," she could hear Isaar saying in the back of her mind. "Soft minded fools or broken souls that would rather live a fabricated existence than deal with reality.
Charles Hash
#51. I don't know how the Wolfman knows all this, but he's not wrong. My warm cheeks turn scalding hot.
"Your shame is a good sign. You may break sooner than I thought. The breaking is good. It purifies.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#52. You don't get to say goodbye. Not now, maybe not ever. That's the beauty of this arrangement. I make all the decisions and you're left to wander around in the dark, waiting, anticipating and fearing my next move. Only when I'm done using you and I've gotten what I need will I let you go.
Ella Dominguez
#53. For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.
Graham Greene
#54. Honey, I usually get $300, but I like you, so I'll just take $200.
Dianne Harman
#56. I should know better than anyone
you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.
Cheryl Rainfield
#57. The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
Laurie Stevens
#58. My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death.
Christine Fonseca
#59. Everything was new, everything was exciting. We were playing house, it seemed, playing at being grownups. When you're in love, I suppose everything feels like a game.
S.E. Lynes
#61. She would not have another man push her aside like some appetizer, there to wet his whistle only to be left once the main dish arrived.
No more. She pushed her thumb into his throat a little harder.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#62. They shared a sensation that was as addictive as a needle full of heroin to a street junkie.
Paige Dearth
#63. Jenny retained a flimsy essence of the truth. It was a quiet knowing she'd always hold in her heart...'Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon
Oliver Rixon
#64. What was justice, after all, but a particular outcome?
Suzanne Rindell
#65. Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity.
Christine Fonseca
#66. It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.
A.J. Waines
#67. Hello my darling,
I'm your real father. I've been searching for you ever since you were stolen from me. I love you so much.
Daddy
Sanjida Kay
#68. There were times that Nathan felt the world would be better off if he were dead. It seemed to him that it would be penance for his sins.
Belinda G. Buchanan
#69. It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.
Dermot Davis
#71. A shocking ultimatum is issued; choose the victim or it defaults to someone you hold dear. And she has just minutes to decide. As each crime becomes more brutal, she is forced to play devil's advocate as she chooses the next target.
WITNESS
Caroline Mitchell
#73. Everything is an echo of something I once read.
Dream, hope, and celebrate life!
Love always comes back in a song.
One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.
Memories never die, and dreams never end!
What is time?
John Siwicki
#74. I was taught to deceive by a great deceiver. Jenny will embrace me as a good man. Just as you did...before tonight.
Ken Cruickshank
#75. I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler's voice from behind me. 'It would not be wise to enter. It is a bad time to disturb the dead.
Micheal Rivers
#76. Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#77. For two years, she and Cassie had been inseparable. And then one night, Cassie had disappeared from her bed. In her place, her abductor had left his calling card, a macabre nursery rhyme. Cassie had never come home.
Elizabeth Heiter
#78. Jenny sensed the energy of the cosmos. It was like a harmonious orchestra vibrating the universe into existence.' Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon
Oliver Rixon
#79. They stole you from me. They took you away for seven years. Your entire lifetime. A life sentence. The waiting has been endless. The watching. The planning. Now, finally, I'm almost ready. I've got a few things to take care of and then we can be reunited.
Sanjida Kay
#80. That I may understand whatever binds the world's innermost core together, see all its workings, and its seeds. - Faust
John Sheehan
#81. Sometimes, we miss the truth when it's right in front of us, she thought. Sometimes the closer we are, the harder it is to see.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#82. It's as if he's trodden in my footsteps, seen what I've seen, felt what I've felt, as I've criss-crossed the moors countless times.
Sanjida Kay
#83. Other girls play with soft toys," I said, "and you play with knives ...
Jess C. Scott
#84. Even the worst humans in the history of the world didn't grow up thinking, "I hope I slaughter an entire race of people when I'm an adult".
Andrew Cormier
#85. If only marriage licenses came with a buyer's remorse clause.
~Detective Mike Malone
D.B. Woodling
#86. I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered out of her car after an accident on a freeway. This was different from the cockroach and the books and the Barbie. I'd been injured. Someone had tried to physically harm me.
Kate White
#87. Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan - it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.
Graham Greene
#88. As Evelyn slid to a stop in the center of the hallway, Butler calmly shook his head. Then he lifted his machine gun and fired.
Elizabeth Heiter
#89. Just one pit stop, Rae. One pit stop that won't even take an hour. Then it's over. It's finally over.
Yawatta Hosby
#91. The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models. We came hardwired with different stories, dark secrets, vices, and defects. Over time, we fail and come to find our end, but the city continues onwards.
Cristina Martin
#92. I don't need my head examined, but where were you when I married my second husband. Sheesh.
Lisa Scottoline
#93. Birds chirped and hawked in the distance. A group of them, maybe vultures, circled the sky. Rae glanced at the blanket. Those damn birds could probably smell Marissa, and the second everyone left, they'd pounce on her.
Yawatta Hosby
#95. I will show you the same amount of mercy given to your family. You turned your back on twenty-five years of marriage, destroyed the family unit, and put everyone through years of heartbreak and therapy.
Virginia Aird
#96. Any chance of an appointment? I know it's a bit unusual and nervy, but I have been given a death sentence and have to get my affairs in quick order.
Virginia Aird
#97. I knew the end would come, one day. I knew my life deserved to be over. Yet, even knowing that, I was no less fearful.
Stacie Evans
#98. My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.
Christine Fonseca
#99. There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.
Dianne Harman
#100. Joseph responded with a dark grin. "Finally - she sees me for what I am.
Claire E. Cruddas
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