#horro

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#able #along #comes #confidence #every

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. ↗

— Stendhal

#cannot #certain #certain things #even #every

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror. ↗

— Thomas Day

#benevolent #contemplates #degree #horror #mind

I've been reading horror since I was five years old. ↗

— George Stephen

#five #horror #i #old #reading

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#conservative #crime #fact #generation #genre

I like emotional horror. I don't like horror movies. I hate them. But, if you can make emotional horror movies, I'm in. If I can care and root for the main character, then I'm in. ↗

— Kevin Williamson

#character #emotional #hate #horror #horror movies

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#death #horror #into #out #takes

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#evil #h-p-lovecraft #horror #weird #dreams

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#philosohpy #age

The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He'd never forget this night, the detective knew, no matter what else happened for the rest of his life. They were all getting scars on their souls, the sort of scars people got in the Dark Ages, when they believed in devils and black magic. ("Speak To Me Of Death") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#devils #fear #horror #scars #age