Top 48 Quotes About The Macabre
#1. Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
Sam Weller
#2. Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
Chris Riddell
#3. I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.
Nicolas Cage
#4. I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal ... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.
Andres Serrano
#5. The macabre melodies were a surreal audible example of just who I'd been before and a stark contrast to who I was now.
K.A. Hill
#6. The office was a treasure trove for those who delighted in the macabre. It was the Smithsonian of the Lowest Common Denominator. My
Kenneth C. Johnson
#8. A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.
Terry Tempest Williams
#9. I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.
Stephen King
#10. It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
Anthony Hecht
#11. These rapid scribbles, the pixels arranged by fingers henceforth forever still, acquired the macabre aspect of husks.
J.K. Rowling
#12. Mrs Downs, a large sad lady who described herself, to Rupert's delight, as bulky but fragile, now came four mornings a week to clean the house. She was one of those people who habitually looked on the black side of everything with a cheerfulness that bordered upon the macabre.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#13. Prudence's flat was in the kind of block where Jane imagined people might be found dead, though she had never said this to Prudence herself; it seemed rather a macabre fancy and not one to be confided to an unmarried woman living alone.
Barbara Pym
#14. When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.
H.P. Lovecraft
#15. The ever-present macabre, a universal dance,
You cannot hide, whether you wield crossbow or lance.
Like the bones of the house in which you dwell,
Death will come, to drag your soul to hell.
Christa Carmen
#16. Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
Lauren DeStefano
#17. dripped down her neck and stained the collar of her shirt. It was a mirror to the wash of blood pouring from her scalp, blinding her left eye and trailing down her cheek like macabre tears.
Kayti Nika Raet
#18. And the silence, it cuts me. The silence, it gores me,
Spilling my blood as the rain falls on me.
Excerpt from "Silence
Angela B. Chrysler
#19. An element of the burial custom which today seems particularly macabre was the possibility of being buried with a companion, a male or female follower, presumably usually a slave, killed for the burial.
Else Roesdahl
#20. If ever I was meant to love, my heart would beat for you,"
Need not the Raven say to Crow beneath the winter's howl.
Excerpt from "The Raven and The Crow
Angela B. Chrysler
#21. The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
H.P. Lovecraft
#22. It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.
H.P. Lovecraft
#23. People have come, surpassed my soul and left.
I have become hollow and the hollow space inside, hurts.
Aniket More
#24. All of them were shriveled, desiccated, bone-thin and skeletal, every jaw cruelly broken, opening and closing in mute entreaty, the teeth clacking together like macabre wind chimes as they pendulated in the lurching trees.
Edward M. Erdelac
#25. I would sometimes see them among the trees, as I did this particular day. They did not come near and never said a word. They stood silently among the shadows.
Chris Priestley
#26. People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher.
Peter Cushing
#27. Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.
John Gimlette
#28. What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
Kahlil Gibran
#29. Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?
N.K. Jemisin
#30. A year later, when I turned sixteen, my father died of cancer. And from then on the dead form a sort of chain, a macabre necklace that weighs a ton, and whose last, closing link will be me, I guess.
Milena Busquets
#31. Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.
Paulo Coelho
#32. When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.
Rick Riordan
#33. And Death it calls as the stone crow breaks. Streaks of blood malform its face.
Death becomes its withered eyes and the shadows whisper, "Lies."
Excerpt from "Lies
Angela B. Chrysler
#34. The Sky was red, but not warm red of a sunset. This was an angry, glowering red, the colour of an infected wound.
Neil Gaiman
#35. It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
Neil Gaiman
#36. The bodies draped down through the leaves like rancid baubles in the locks of a horrible harlot.
Daniel Woodrell
#37. Rafael possessed unfathomable strength. His speed defied the laws of nature...and his bite, good God, his bite. How could something so macabre feel so pleasurable?
Brooklyn Ann
#38. Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
Pat Barker
#39. Emma was horrified and transfixed at the same time. She was watching Jonah Kinlock doing what he did best. There was a certain macabre beauty in watching form and function wedded together. In Jonah's case, a dance of beauty and death.
Cinda Williams Chima
#40. Unhealthy love can make fools of women. It causes us to forgive the unforgivable. It twists our feelings into a macabre parody of actual love until we think that our unhealthy emotions are the real deal and not a sick obsession.
Carry Lowe
#41. Jack the Hellhound: "Make sure you get a booth in the back so they don't see you in assassin-gear and more importantly, to keep the handsome dog hidden."
Robert Knight: "Where's the handsome dog? All I see is an ugly mutt!"
Jack the Hellhound: "You're so funny I'm busting a gut.
Ben Garvey
#42. Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?
Sarah Vowell
#43. I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.'
'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.
Shirley Jackson
#44. 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
#45. In the distance Richard could see the skyscrapers of Los Angeles rising out of the ocean; barnacle crusted concrete and steel emerging from crashing waves. Once a symbol of economic might, they were now a macabre monument to the mortality of man.
Alexander Ferrick
#46. In the darkest and strangest of places with the most macabre of company, this music moves her and her life pulses hard... And even for Julie's safety, I can't bring myself to smother it.
Isaac Marion
#47. Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
Jessica Mitford
#48. But both the narcissist and his partner do not really consider each other. Trapped in the moves of an all-consuming dance macabre, they follow the motions morbidly - semiconscious, desensitized, exhausted, and concerned only with survival.
Sam Vaknin
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