Existential Horror Quotes & Sayings

Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret. — Joel McHale

There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation. — Charlotte Bronte

To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists, we are absurd. But what can we do? Must we go on writing letters to politicians and donating to conservation organizations until the majority of our fellow citizens agree with us? Or can we do something directly to solve our share of the problem? I am a conservationist. I believe wholeheartedly in putting pressure on the politicians and in maintaining the conservation organizations. — Wendell Berry

Therein lies the power of culture: it redeems horror by transforming it into existential wisdom. If the spirit of the trial succeeds in annihilating this century's culture, nothing will remain of us but a memory of its atrocities sung by a chorus of children. — Milan Kundera

I think it was hiding a princess. — Marissa Meyer

Even a zombie lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assault of a million fluorocarbon spray cans of deodorant. — Stephen King

When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant. - The Mist — Stephen King

There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation. — Homer

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living. — Arundhati Roy

She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books. — Alexander McCall Smith

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. — Confucius

We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people — Alexander Mackenzie

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself. — Derek Raymond

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair. — Connie Willis

You always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line. — Poppy Z. Brite

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. — Henry George Bohn

Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard. — H.P. Lovecraft

I also employed the world-famous Hemingway Defense. Although never clearly articulated (it would not be manly to do so), the Hemingway Defense goes something like this: as a writer, I am a very sensitive fellow, but I am also a man, and real men don't give in to their sensitivities. Only sissy-men do that. Therefore I drink. How else can I face the existential horror of it all and continue to work? — Stephen King

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it. — Lu Xun

The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made people rise to real ambition, real gravity was the sense of posterity, for example - a word that I can remember hearing quite often when I was a child and I never hear anymore. People actually wanted to make the world good for people in generations that they would never see. It makes people think in very large terms to try to liberate women, for example, or to try to eliminate slavery. — Marilynne Robinson