#horrors

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear? ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#bear #circus #except #get #horrors

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#cold #cold war #commanded #crushing #curtain

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage? ↗

— Ashleigh Banfield

#completely #coverage #happened #horrors #journalism

Then the creatures of the high air answered to the battle, foretelling the destruction that would be done that day; and the sea chattered of the losses, and the waves gave heavy shouts keening them, and the water-beasts roared to one another, and the rough hills creaked with the danger of the battle, and the woods trembled mourning the heroes, and the grey stones cried out at their deeds, and the wind sobbed telling them, and the earth shook, foretelling the slaughter; and the cries of the grey armies put a cloak over the sun, and the clouds were dark; and the hounds and the whelps and the crows, and the witches of the valley, and the powers of the air, and the wolves of the forests, howled from every quarter and on every side of the armies, urging them against one another. ↗

— Augusta Gregory

#pathetic-fallacy #men

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. ↗

— Stephen King

#help #horrors #make #make up #ones

I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#demand #fundamental #fundamental change #government #horrors

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors. ↗

— Terri Windling

#always #been #brutal #dark #each

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#first #horrors #lessen #second #seem

It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#country #earthquakes #horrors #hurricanes #influenza

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#am #century #come #glad #horrors