440 Quotes About Terror

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful to admit or even to feel. It is an account of the altered states that trauma induces, which make it possible to survive a life-threatening event but impair the capacity to feel fear, and worse still, impair the ability to love. (292)

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

Every morningI wake up with the newsof bloodshed.I feel my body,desperate to know whetherI’m still alive.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.

Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.