Quotation Explorer - 'Horrors'

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully. - Elizabeth Aston
People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand. - J. Matthew Nespoli
In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it’s Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it’s crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors. It’s climbing and climbing. Then a sudden abrupt fall - within days. - Hilary Mantel
Even if I told you what scares me, you wouldn't understand how it feels.So just so you know, I've travelled roads I had no idea where they'd take me to.And maybe I don't know much about life and its horrors but trust me, I know enough.And I can fix everything, like I always have. - Simran.M.Anthony
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. - Stephen King
... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that. - Anthony Eden
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. - Richard Price
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom. - Leo Tolstoy
In the horrors of war, please bring me peace. - Anthony Liccione
I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors. - Horace Greeley
The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics. - Jill Lepore
War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can't be bettered learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget. - Robert Graff
You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are part of you. And they will never go away. - Loki, Marvel's The Avengers
Blessed are the ignorant fools of the world, for they know not the unspeakable horrors that await us all. - Dorkly
All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility. - Leo Tolstoy
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension. - Nikola Tesla
...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade. - James Henry Gooding
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