Macabre Quotes:

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

- Anthony Hecht

topic: Children, Strange, Macabre, Sensational

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

- Jessica Mitford

topic: Dying, Macabre, Gracious

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

- Stephen King

source: Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

topic: Thinking, Nastiness, Macabre

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.26, Vintage

topic: Never Trust, Descent, Macabre, Hospitals

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

- Gore Vidal

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Affair, Imagine, Macabre

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.

- Charles Fort

source: Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

topic: Lying, Data, Mad, Taunting, Unexplained

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Funny Life, Wish, Forget, Macabre

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Writing, Thoughtful, Reality, Language Words, Macabre

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Dream, Dreamy, Romanticism

We loved with a love that was more than love.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Love, Marriage, Best Love, Romanticism, Very Romantic

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

- Stephen King

topic: Faith, Fall, Knowing, Blackness, Macabre

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Beautiful, Death, Thoughtful, Macabre, Beautiful Death

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

- H. P. Lovecraft

source: H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.13, Race Point Publishing

topic: Imagination, Everyday, Degrees, Macabre

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

- Sophie Ellis Bextor

topic: Believe, Ghost, Influence, Macabre

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Dream, Reality, Ideas, Unbalanced, Macabre

Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the emerald carpet, the warriors make war, and it is like a dance, almost beautiful, always macabre. The noise brings me back, the fearsome noise of swords striking swords, a metallic clanging that rings in my ears, echoing and echoing the fearsome din of men screaming and crying as they meet the sharp ends of blades.

- Lisa Ann Sandell

source: Lisa Ann Sandell (2008). “Song of the Sparrow”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Beautiful, War, Men, Metallic, Macabre

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Humor, Men, Doors, Gallows, Macabre

It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.

- H. P. Lovecraft

source: H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.145, Lulu.com

topic: Night, Profound, Imagination, Macabre

People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher.

- Peter Cushing

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Animal, Thinking, Macabre

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

- Nicolas Cage

source: "Nicolas Cage Exclusive Interview SEASON OF THE WITCH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 3, 2011.

topic: Stars, Celebration, Horror, Macabre, Film Stars

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

- Tippi Hedren

topic: Funny, Men, Getting Older, Chaplin, Funny Men

I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.

- Andres Serrano

topic: Thinking, Certainty In Life, Normal, Macabre

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.

- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Scary, Different, Suspense, Really Scary, Macabre

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

- N.K. Jemisin

topic: Morning, Glowing, Sunrise, Macabre

Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.

- Dave Navarro

topic: Moving, Car, Humanity, Macabre, Chad

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists in allied fields. The award for the best painting went to the canvas of an Illinois artist. It was described as "a macabre, detailed work showing a closed door bearing a funeral wreath." Equally striking was the work's title: "That which I should have done, I did not do."

- James Keller

topic: Time, Art, Illinois, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Macabre

When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Children, Book, Long, Picture Books, Macabre

Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.

- John Gimlette

topic: War, People, Different, Macabre