Terror famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
-- Abby Sunderland -
I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.
-- Anna Leonowens -
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
-- Antonin Artaud -
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.
-- Billy Graham -
Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
-- Caleb Carr -
Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror
-- Carl Jung -
Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.
-- Carol Plum-Ucci -
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.
-- Christian Wiman -
Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.
-- Christin Lore Weber -
There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.
-- Christopher Bollen -
Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.
-- Colin Firth -
In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.
-- Dan Abnett -
The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.
-- David Gemmell -
The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
-- David Mamet -
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
-- Donna Tartt -
Death is the mother of beauty,†said Henry. “And what is beauty?†“Terror.
-- Donna Tartt -
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
-- Eric Hoffer -
The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
-- Eric Whitacre -
To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
-- Ernest Becker -
We represent in ourselves organized terror - this must be said very clearly.
-- Felix Dzerzhinsky -
For the night is dark and full of terrors.
-- George R. R. Martin -
Its never right to fight terror with terror.
-- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo -
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.
-- Gore Vidal -
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!
-- Irvin D. Yalom -
If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
-- Jack Kevorkian -
I'm Jack the Ripper. I love women. I'm Jack the Ripper. I caused terror throughout London-
-- Jack the Ripper -
Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.
-- Jackie Morse Kessler -
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
-- James Harrington -
It starts with organizing the corruption and it ends with organizing the terror.
-- Jan Theuninck -
Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.
-- Jane Goodall -
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
-- John Arbuthnot -
The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved,
-- John Ashcroft -
No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.
-- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero -
I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.
-- Josephine Baker -
we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.
-- Judith Viorst -
It's official: cyber terror is the new yellowcake uranium.
-- Kevin Poulsen -
That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.
-- Laurie Lee -
If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.
-- Lydia Davis -
Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.
-- Margaret Drabble -
Horror... and moral terror... are your friends.
-- Marlon Brando -
Once you allow anyone to terrorize you, you will be terrorized all your life. Terror corrupts. Pretty soon you'll be terrorizing others. ... Life doesn't mean anything if you can't rid yourself of fear.
-- Martha Albrand -
Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.
-- Matt Haig -
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
-- Max Beerbohm -
Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.
-- Maximilien Robespierre -
Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
-- Maximilien Robespierre -
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
-- Maya Angelou -
The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.
-- Nick Lampson -
If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.
-- Peter Wolf -
My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.
-- Pittacus Lore -
Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.
-- Poppy Z. Brite -
Trav, if you cross us -- " "I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terror.
-- Rachel Caine -
Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -
A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.
-- Richard Matheson -
Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
-- Richard Stallman -
I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.
-- Samuel R. Delany -
An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.
-- Sophie Scholl -
Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.
-- Steve Guttenberg -
There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
-- Steve Martin -
When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.
-- Steven Spielberg -
Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.
-- Thomas M. Disch -
Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.
-- Tzachi Hanegbi -
And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
-- Ulrich Beck -
It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.
-- Vera Farmiga -
Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
-- Vikas Swarup -
No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
-- W. G. Sebald -
An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
-- Walter de La Mare -
Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.
-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky -
The most terrible of all things is terror.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.
-- Yitzhak Rabin -
Russia has never been an aggressor. Russia has always been a country contributing to global stability and security. A country heavily involved in combating terror.
-- Dmitry Peskov -
In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.
-- Ian McLeod -
We are going to lose the war on terror because all of our agents are tied up investigating the GOP.
-- John Cole -
I'm interested in the way that terror is almost a psychosomatic state. You may have suffered a small injury for a few seconds, but the rest of the year you're constantly on the alert, your injury is constantly with you - and I mean this on a city-wide scale.
-- Karan Mahajan -
I think humor and terror are very closely related.
-- Rachel Zucker -
Talks with terror cannot happen, but talks on terror are desirable.
-- Sushma Swaraj -
I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.
-- Ann Widdecombe -
The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.
-- Ayelet Shaked -
Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.
-- Ron Paul -
Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.
-- Lesley Hazleton
