Terrors Quotes

“We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience.”
― Rilke Letters to a Young Poet

“Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“Domestic terrorism is alive and well in the USA and it is masquerading as “Progress”.”
― Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“I'm sorry I was awful. I'm so full of terrors.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Hours

“Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Terrors can be mirrors, too.”
― Gregory Benford, Shipstar

“Are you so dead inside you don't feel the daily anguish, terror and deathly suffering of millions? What happened to you? You've changed.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“What was his place? he wondered. Where was his world? He had sometimes stood on the riverbank and told himself: Deep down in the cold water is your world; a rock lashed to your feet is your clothing for that world. To enter it you need only to climb to the place above the rapids, where the pool is, where it is always calm, so it must be deep, and there bury yourself and leave a world that is not your own and find a garden, long fields already cleared and cribs already filled, a new place in which a weakness in a man is a matter for a word or chide, not a break through which the terrors of the world flow in.”
― John Ehle, The Land Breakers

“He’d discovered that most of the terrors that stalked the night weren’t really terrors at all. They were mostly like regular folks, just trying to live their lives. As long as they were left alone they were perfectly harmless except for the occasional bite on the neck. Humans were the real terrors, always getting worked up and looking to kill something.”
― A. Lee Martinez, Gil's All Fright Diner

“...like any dreamer, at the mercy of her unconscious. When she fell asleep, she was no sorceress or dark enthraller, but just a sleeping girl with no control over the terrors within her.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.”
― John Katzenbach