Screams Quotes

“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”
― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

“Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

“Silence is a lie that screams at the light.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“I remembered screaming then, screaming until my voice stopped.”
― Ivy Devlin, Low Red Moon

“In an endless silence even screams sound silent.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator

“Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“If anyone locked me in a dungeon, there'd be screams.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Hemingway is overrated,
Twain is even more lost at sea,
And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,
Where both her whispers and her screams,
Are born.
Pour another glass,
Beer, wine, whiskey,
I don't care,
So long as its wisdom is sharp,
And it tells lies instead of promises.”
― Dave Matthes, The Kaleidoscope Syndrome: An Anthology

“For, or so they whispered, she would take the camp-stool and draw it up close below the face of the man or woman that hung down over the edge of the interrogation table. Then she would squat down on the stool and and look into the face and quietly say 'No. 1' or 'No. 10' or 'No. 25' and the inquisitors would know what she meant and they would begin. And she would watch the eyes in the face a few inches away from hers and breathe in the screams as if they were perfume.”
― Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love

“No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The mother sings a hungry song
Of blood and cracking teeth
She dances in the dark below
wants to pull us underneath

Her claws, they rise, they sway in dance
to the melody of screams
Her lullaby will never end
till the world comes apart at the seams”
― Amy Lukavics, The Women in the Walls

“Tell me.. What's the extreme of depression? It's hysteria. What is the extreme of laughs but tears? And the extreme of screams is silence while the extreme of pain is sedation.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, Norina Luciano

“What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need to know.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“I saw thousands of them. A sea of the dead that roared like an ocean! You would have heard them screaming toward you. It would have taken days to steer them away. Killing them? I don't think killing them would have been possible.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 27: The Whisperer War

“I wrench my mouth free and scream, but screams in Faerie are like bird-song, too common to attract much attention.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Made you the subject of my dreams, I was always the first to hear your screams. Haven't you had enough of all these schemes? Re-run all the scenes...Haven't you noticed we're being a bit too extreme? I know not everything is as it seems, but aren't you tired of floating downstream?”
― Dalal Gebara

“Our Lord shouts and screams;
his tears fall from heaven and spring the streams”
― John E. Wordslinger

“Yes, this was a haunted place. He had read
about certain materials absorbing the sounds of their surroundings like divots in a vinyl recording, and now, as the sun started to dip below the horizon, this concept chilled him more than the creeping cold. Put a needle to the mortar of these walls and listen to the screams. His own would be among them.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“He placed his ear against the door and listened, but he could not hear the screams. It never occurred to him that the door and walls were soundproofed. How utterly convenient, he thought.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Please try to remember.

100% of people finding themselves in hell, would accept, if offered the chance to go back in time, to warn themselves or others, about the grotesque existance which is hell. Begging. Pleading.

And, I'm not so sure about time travel.”
― Adaeristw

“It wasn't long before the first rays of sun breached the horizon ... and when the screams came, they were delectable.”
― Alistair Cross, The Silver Dagger

“When pain inspires you, your thoughts scream its lungs out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Beyond us, all around us, the screams of the dying were like the never-ending pealing of the city's warning bells.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Mr. Jenkins screamed, in a way that she had never known a man could scream, a high, piercing screech.
Then he rose up into the night like a great flapping bird, flew, screaming across the sky, became a rent, an emptiness, a slash of nothingness--”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“I kept my screams inside, masking them with a smile.”
― A. eM., Untamed Heart: Beauty and the Beast