#horror

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#am #brain #everything #first #horrors

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#after #armed #defeat #desperate #exile

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#far #haunt #horror #places #searchers

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#bear #biological #blood #bloodstream #bloody

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#cling #come #cry #feed #horror

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#cheek #horror #make #part #people

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror. ↗

— William H. Macy

#horror #ironic #king #lot #more

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#each #event #horror #new #reverberation

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#curious #horror #i #i do #like

The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that. The important thing was that, when I did see the stars (riotously darting in all directions according to the caprice of their own wild natures, yet in every movement confirming the law), the whole tangled horror that had tormented me finally presented itself to me in its truth and beautiful shape. And I knew that the first, blind stage of my childhood had ended. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#childhood #horror #law #miracles #stars