#horror

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#beauty

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#had #horror #i #poverty

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#after #am #chambers #darkest #delve

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#discovered #final #horrors #into #letting

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

I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#asian #been #culture #fascinated #film

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#car #complaining #done #feel #find

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

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#alive #another #city #creation #death

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#far #haunt #horror #places #searchers