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Horror Quotes - Page 4

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.92, St. Martin's Press

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

Alfie Kohn (2004). “What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies”, p.54, Beacon Press

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Octave Mirbeau (1989). “The Torture Garden”, Re-Search Publications

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.369, Macmillan

I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

'Sodome et Gomorrhe' (Cities of the Plain, 1922, translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, vol. 1, p. 296)