Horror & Fear Quotes

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Fear will make you stingy.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

If frightening sensations are not given the time and attention they need to move through the body and resolve or dissolve, the individual will continue to be gripped by fear.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

I had paralyzing fear as a kid. I couldn't watch horror movies, nothing. The funny thing is I got so sick of being afraid that I started doing it deliberately and instead of being afraid in my bed I would sit up on my bed and say, 'ok, come on, show yourself, do it.'

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Fear is exciting for me.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually does the opposite. The best scares come from a desire to see the character overcome what they're dealing with in the scene. If you care about the character you'll care about the scare.

Fear usually looks like anger.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

Fear attracts attack.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.