Top 55 Horrors Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Horrors Quotes from famous people such as Agnes Moorehead, James Righton, Alice James, Jed Mercurio, Trudie Styler, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

From what I can see people look at television to forget

From what I can see people look at television to forget the horrors outside.
Agnes Moorehead
There was always talk that the Horrors didn’t have any substance but I think they’re proving people wrong.
James Righton
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James
‘Frankenstein’ is a timeless classic. As science advances, it becomes more relevant, not less. Its fantasy moves closer to fact, its horrors closer to reality.
Jed Mercurio
My life is to travel, and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.
Trudie Styler
The perverse gift of the Chinese coronavirus is that it has given Americans an up close and personal look at the horrors of big government – and, by extension, socialism.
Charlie Kirk
It’s been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.
Tony Harrison
It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability.
Ger Duany
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
When America pays lip service but little more to horrors like the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, instead proclaiming convenient but arbitrary loopholes in our moral obligations, we just give the world’s worst bullies more ammunition and power.
S.E. Cupp
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
Desmond Tutu
I don’t inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I’ve uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.
Alan Furst
What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
Donald Pleasence
Everyone has strange teenage years. It’s not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.
Graham Moore
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species – if separate species we be – for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
H. P. Lovecraft
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
Sydney Smith
Comedy provides an escape from the horrors of real life.
Michael McIntyre
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
The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.
Stephen Karam
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
Arundhati Roy
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I do know that I love placing my stories in Michigan because, if you collect all the ideas, it turns the whole state into one kaleidoscopic, frightening place. Michigan as house of horrors.
Josh Malerman
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly
In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.
Michael Korda
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn’t seem to lessen their horrors.
Doris Lessing
She performed for the Dutch Resistance, not just to raise money but also to entertain people and to take their minds off the horrors they were living through. They would do plays and little musicals, trying to be discreet and not bring the attention of the soldiers.
Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Every day millions of innocent children around the world experience unimaginable horrors because of war.
Penny Mordaunt
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad – simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
Jules Verne
I got heckled by a woman, and my riposte fixed upon her unfortunate hair texture, only for her to remove her wig and reveal to the room the horrors of chemotherapy.
Dominic Holland
Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life’s little horrors begin.
Caroline Knapp
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.
Ernst Toller
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.
Eisaku Sato
I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: ‘Keep her moving sir; we’re stock-taking.’
Les Dawson
We must remember both the sacrifices and service of the Greatest Generation who secured freedom and prosperity for our world, as well as the horrors and lessons of the Holocaust.
Mikie Sherrill
More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood’s make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.
Paul Gillmor
I think sci-fi and horror are a perfect vehicle for exploring racism and injustice, the horrors of that. They are real; they are actual; they are tangible. They are also metaphorical and invisible.
Wunmi Mosaku
We must remember both the sacrifices and service of the Greatest Generation who secured freedom and prosperity for our world, as well as the horrors and lessons of the Holocaust.
Mikie Sherrill
A lot of what I’ve done has a rock edge, even going back to ‘Little Shop of Horrors.’
Alan Menken
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages’ horrors at the same time.
Sharon Olds
It wasn’t long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
Bernadette Devlin
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
I have seen heroics – soldiers saving other soldiers’ lives – and horrors.
Richard Engel
Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can’t, and vice versa.
Rob Lowe
I get a lot of mud slung at me, and yes, I do take planes, but I feel that’s my life. My life is to travel and also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of an irresponsible oil company.
Trudie Styler
No corner of our society has been left unscathed by the horrors of gun violence. To end it, we’ll need to bring together the best from each corner, taking what works from government, the private sector, and our local communities and crafting common-sense solutions to gun violence.
Kevin de Leon
There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.
Alex Shoumatoff
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
Davy Crockett
Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
H. P. Lovecraft
My first success was ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ and I had been working for years on jingles.
Alan Menken
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen King
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.
George Washington
Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
Charles Baudelaire
Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
Jennifer Armintrout
Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we weren’t able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.
Richie Havens