Top 100 The Terror Quotes
#1. I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.
Joshua Sasse
#2. Let me put aside every desire, so that my heart grows used to its farthest spaces. Better that it live fully aware, in the terror of its stars, than as if protected, soothed by what is near.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#3. Keisaku and Eita were expecting to see "the beauty in the morning" as they entered the room. What they actually saw, however, was "The Terror of the Bagworm Queen" rolling around on the floor. It was a scene far removed from the sexy situation the two had imagined.
Yashichiro Takahashi
#4. I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.
James A. Baldwin
#5. The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.
Ernst Junger
#6. When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.
Alexandra Bracken
#7. In most cases, however, the terror was extremely short-lived, as was the person experiencing the terror.
Douglas Adams
#8. The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
Dylan Moran
#9. The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.
Lester B. Pearson
#10. Slippery stages were the terror of my life.
Fred Astaire
#11. It is hard for one who has not had a similar experience to imagine the terror that still gripped Taeko and Mrs. Tamaki and Hiroshi, so intense a terror that afterwards it seemed almost funny.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#12. And when a joke is powerful enough, you don't laugh, you scream. Yes, when the mask slips you scream out loud for all the terror in the world, and I screamed then.
Matt Haig
#13. The beauty of our sky is really just a nice way for the earth to protect us from the terror of what's so vast and unknowable beyond. The boundlessness of the universe is disturbing when you think about it. It's too big and we're too small.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#14. When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.
Noah Cicero
#15. We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people,including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#16. I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.
Emily Susan Rapp
#17. The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides
#18. The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'
Sandra Tsing Loh
#19. As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at.
Richard Castle
#20. Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?
Craig Kilborn
#21. The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
Edward Abbey
#22. Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
Luc De Clapiers
#23. My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.
Stephen King
#24. My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#25. There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently.
Arnold Bennett
#26. If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.
Peter Wolf
#27. We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.
Kevin DeYoung
#28. since nothing is more predictable than the media's parroting of its own fictions and the terror of each competitor that it will be scooped by the others, whether or not the story is true, because
John Le Carre
#29. The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.
Norman Davies
#30. Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.
Ellen Key
#31. The Block were not his enemy any more than the terror groups had been, however. They were just opponents in someone's obscene game of chess. It was stupid for a knight to hate a pawn just because it flew a different flag.
Evan Currie
#32. It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#33. Machiavelli believed it was better to be feared than loved, because attachment is easily severed, but the terror of pain is ever present.
J.M. Darhower
#34. The coward's fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others' lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. - J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors
Sebastian Junger
#35. As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch.
Peter F. Hamilton
#36. It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.
Josh Hartnett
#37. Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
Leonard Cohen
#38. Because with joy, we overcome the terror. With love, strength, and hope, we prevail.
Sarah Darer Littman
#39. Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.
Shimon Peres
#40. She could taste the terror she'd felt when she'd first seen the Ravener. The taste was sharp and coppery on her tongue like old pennies.
Cassandra Clare
#41. The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas, which may become reassuring in the context of the terror of death.
Daniel Kahneman
#43. Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.
Ben Horowitz
#44. The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.
Franz Kafka
#45. It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.
Doris Lessing
#46. But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason ...
Andrea Zuvich
#48. Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.
Paulo Coelho
#49. The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.
Richard Burr
#50. And all the sky was teeming and tearing along, a vast disorder of flying shapes and darkness and ragged fumes of light and a great brown circling halo, then the terror of a moon running liquid-brilliant into the open for a moment, hurting the eyes before she plunged under cover of cloud again.
D.H. Lawrence
#51. The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
Albert Einstein
#52. All the terror I had dimly felt before rushed upon me actively and vividly, and I knew that I loathed the ancient and abhorrent creature so near me with an infinite intensity.
H.P. Lovecraft
#53. If four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.
Naftali Bennett
#54. Fearlessness is an accounting trick. You feel the fear; you just defer it. I could stand on the cliff immobile, feeling terrified, or I could leap and feel the terror while falling.
Elizabeth McCracken
#55. We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet.
Joseph Stefano
#56. The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
Eric Whitacre
#57. We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Karl Marx
#58. Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.
Charlie Cook
#59. We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it.
Seamus Heaney
#60. I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror ... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.
Bertrand Russell
#61. I was incapable of writing or feeling anything except the terror of her absence, of knowing she was lost, wrenched away.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#62. She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
Gregory Maguire
#63. This history has for so long lived like a spider in my breast. The spider spins and spins, catching memories in its web, threatening to devour every final happiness. With this letter I hope to sweep away the terror and the sadness and to have my heart made pure again by God's grace.
Kathleen Kent
#65. Some of what I remembered was not my own story. It was twisted like tobacco strands, tangled with a dozen other memories of people who were here and others who were not even a part of the terror.
Jane Kirkpatrick
#66. Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable.
William Golding
#67. For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature or, at the least, against everything one has ever seen or known before.
Philippa Gregory
#68. The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#69. Christmas was gluing cotton balls to Santa's beard in Coke ads, sneaking candy canes off the tree daily (that my parents replaced every few nights), enough gift-wrap to wallpaper a room, the terror and delight of knowing a magical being would enter my home while I slept.
Thomm Quackenbush
#70. So it is with the drug of praise upon which these children are trained to depend: the praise that is the sign of parental love, for the achievement that is the condition of that love. Every A is a fix that temporarily quells the anxiety of failure, the terror of falling short.
William Deresiewicz
#71. The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.
Carlos Castaneda
#72. I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about
Edward Bloor
#73. Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.
Deidre Hall
#74. We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love ... embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world.
Coco J. Ginger
#75. They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our recollection of the terror that surrounds it is perfect.
Claire North
#76. The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E.B. White
#77. You must have also observed the masculine bias in the English language itself, in which women - literally, 'not men' - are daily confronted with the terror, unknowable to men, of concepts which they can imagine, but which an inherently patriarchal language does not allow them to express.
Dexter Palmer
#78. The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.
S.E. Lindberg
#79. It starts with organizing the corruption and it ends with organizing the terror.
Jan Theuninck
#80. The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
Bernard Baruch
#81. All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.
Matt Haig
#82. I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.
Charles Dickens
#83. Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.
Chuck Todd
#84. My feelings for Kaden, although confusing and admittedly self destructive, ran deeper than physical appearances. All the pain he caused me, all the terror I lived with, was nothing compared to the anxiety of not knowing what would happen if I were to find myself without him.
Lydia Kelly
#85. Christ, under the law, appeared on a red horse, denoting the terror of that dispensation, and that he had yet his conflict before him, when he was to resist unto blood. But, under the gospel, he appears on a white horse
Matthew Henry
#86. I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.
Woody Allen
#87. This is when you pray, she thought miserably and quietly. This is when you pray to nothing and no one to take away the terror of what you've done, to make it right, to make it that you never never came here.
Anne Rice
#88. Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
Francis Scott Key
#89. The fear of dying is not just the terror of pain, the humiliation of the loss of faculties, the fall into the abyss . . . but the primeval fear that afterwards one might remember it. The
Christopher Priest
#90. No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
Marie Antoinette
#91. She found that if she paid extremely careful attention to what was around her, really concentrating, and noticing every detail, the terror would fall back.
Marisa De Los Santos
#92. Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
Muhammad Iqbal
#93. On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like the one for Osama bin Laden. The terror group has two capital cities: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. Al-Qaeda never had such an obvious home address.
Richard Engel
#94. None of the agony it had caused her, the terror, or the heartbreak. But
Danielle Steel
#95. Then there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the end, to be walked with serenely;
Virginia Woolf
#96. Thousands of people who say they love animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs.
Jane Goodall
#97. As looking down from great heights brings the urge to fall and end the terror of falling, so his very watching put pressure on them to make a slip as they dried and stacked the plates and cups.
John McGahern
#98. Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Jeanette Winterson
#99. Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.
Charles Dickens
#100. 'Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
Christopher Buckley
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