Top 385 Horrors Quotes & Sayings

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

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.

It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.

I have supped full with horrors.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

There was always talk that the Horrors didn't have any substance but I think they're proving people wrong.

I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?

I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

A lot of what I've done has a rock edge, even going back to 'Little Shop of Horrors.'

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

Comedy provides an escape from the horrors of real life.

In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.

In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.

It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.

If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.

But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

Assad is unquestionably guilty of the most grievous fault and has inflicted horrors upon his people.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

My first success was 'Little Shop of Horrors,' and I had been working for years on jingles.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.