Top 217 Horrifying Quotes & Sayings

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.

If I wanted to make a subversive record, it would be horrifying and insane.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over and over. These stories were so horrifying and really difficult to reconcile. For me, Noah wasn't the story of the graham cracker box with the little animals it was horrifying. I would ask the same questions as a child. "Well, what about the little kids? What about the dogs and cats?"

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

My children don't even know who Fairuz is - a horrifying thought.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.

Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying

I hate watching myself. It's terrible. It's horrifying.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.

Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now...She's got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body ... I know she's very good, and I'm not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won't ... but Hannah Storm ... come on now! Stop! What are you doing? ... She's what I would call a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point.

I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to seeing potentially horrifying things on the Internet.

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold.

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.

I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.

It isn't always on the front pages, but the horrifying mistreatment and subjugation of women around the globe is very much worthy of more attention.

It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination of the dispossessed.

That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.

'BloodRayne' was an abomination... It's a horrifying and preposterous movie.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

In the real world, there's probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize it and internalize it.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.

I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.

Obviously, we're really upset about the state of the election. It's horrifying, as everybody knows, that we could have a totally fascist president.