Quotes and Sayings About Terror
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
-- Abby SunderlandSource : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc
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I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
-- Alberto GonzalesSource : "Ex-Bush Team Acclimates to Private Life" by Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2009.
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In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.
-- Anna LeonowensSource : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The Romance of the Harem”, p.114, Applewood Books
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
-- Antonin ArtaudSource : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.92, Univ of California Press
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That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
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Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.
-- Billy Graham -
Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
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Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
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Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror
-- Carl Jung -
Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.
-- Carol Plum-UcciSource : "What happened to Lani Garver". Book by Carol Plum-Ucci, 2002.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
-- Charles BaudelaireSource : Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.263, Courier Corporation
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I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.
-- Christian Wiman -
Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.
-- Christin Lore WeberSource : Christin Lore Weber (1997). “Circle of Mysteries: The Women's Rosary Book”, p.197, Yes International Publishers
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There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.
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Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
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Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.
-- Colin FirthSource : "Emma Stone and Colin Firth Talk MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT, Working with Woody Allen, Filming Without Rehearsal Time and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. July 22, 2014.
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In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.
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The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.
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The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
-- David Mamet -
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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
-- Donna TarttSource : Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.40, Vintage
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Death is the mother of beauty,†said Henry. “And what is beauty?†“Terror.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
-- Eric Hoffer -
The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
-- Eric WhitacreSource : Twitter post from May 20, 2016
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To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
-- Ernest Becker -
We represent in ourselves organized terror - this must be said very clearly.
-- Felix Dzerzhinsky -
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For the night is dark and full of terrors.
-- George R. R. Martin