#horror

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I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.


Isak Dinesen


#ants #believe #evil #horror #i

This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whatever may be really “out there” cannot project itself as an affective experience. It is all a vacuous affair with only a chemical prestige. Nothing is either good or bad, desirable or undesirable, or anything else except that it is made so by laboratories inside us producing the emotions on which we live. And to live on our emotions is to live arbitrarily, inaccurately—imparting meaning to what has none of its own. Yet what other way is there to live? Without the ever-clanking machinery of emotion, everything would come to a standstill. There would be nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to be, and no one to know. The alternatives are clear: to live falsely as pawns of affect, or to live factually as depressives, or as individuals who know what is known to the depressive. How advantageous that we are not coerced into choosing one or the other, neither choice being excellent. One look at human existence is proof enough that our species will not be released from the stranglehold of emotionalism that anchors it to hallucinations. That may be no way to live, but to opt for depression would be to opt out of existence as we consciously know it.


Thomas Ligotti


#emotion #the-horror #experience

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?


Angelina Grimke


#back #children #enslave #friends #horror

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.


Henry Anatole Grunwald


#claims #echoes #fault #greatest #horror

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.


Laurell K. Hamilton


#compulsion #does #else #everyone #fantasy

Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.


Kirk Hammett


#around #because #came #front #had

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.


Josh Hartnett


#enjoy #horror #i #like #quiet

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.


John W. Campbell Jr.


#horror #science-fiction #science

Is this how humanity waves good-bye? Hell no.


Rick Yancey


#apocalypse #cassie #fiction #horror #humanity

Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.


Adam Baker


#horror #science-fiction #survival #thriller #zombie