(117 quotes found)
“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.”
William S. Burroughs
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
Charles Bukowski
“The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.”
Marquis De Sade
“Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.”
Aleister Crowley
“Japanese horror is different. It messes with your head.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”
Christopher Lasch
“To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois”
Jules Renard
“Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.”
Josh Hartnett
“Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out.”
