24 phrases of terror with which to feel authentic fear
Are you looking for phrases of terror with which to test your value? If tonight you want to fall asleep, you better stop reading, because these famous quotes and quotes about fear and horror are going to have you thinking for weeks.
- Related article: "Why we like horror movies"
The horror film, despite making us go bad, we love it. How is it possible? The adrenaline that we segregate when seeing other people suffer, we put ourselves in their situation and the mystery keeps us attentive to the screen for hours.
Horror and horror phrases in the cinema
It is this cinematographic genre that leaves us the most brilliant phrases of terror . In this article we will review some of the most famous and remembered ones, not only those that we have ever heard in the cinema but also in literature and in the world of politics and philosophy.
1. Sometimes I see dead ... (The Sixth Sense)
One of the most remembered, extracted from the mythical film starring Bruce Willis.
2. Horror movies do not create murderers ... It just makes them more creative (Scream)
Another mythical movie of fear, and a phrase that can make your hair stand on end.
3. Knowing that you are going to die changes everything. You feel things in a different way and you appreciate them very differently. However, people do not appreciate the value of their lives. They drink from the glass of water, but they do not taste it. (Saw)
Extracted from the legendary gore film that premiered in 2004.
4. I would give anything if the portrait aged, while I remain young. Yes, also my soul. (The Portrait of Dorian Grey)
Prisoner of his narcissism, the young Gray sold his soul to the devil.
5. Then, when the video ends, the phone rings. He is someone who knows that you have just seen him; and only says: "You will die in 7 days". (The Ring)
A macabre end after watching the famous video of the well.
6. Let's play a game ... (Saw)
This phrase was pronounced by the bicycle clown to announce that the participants of the gloomy game should try to escape to atone for their sins.
7. When there is no more space in hell, the dead will walk on the earth. (The dawn of the living dead)
A post-apocalyptic terror appointment.
8. I am not an elephant! I'm not an animal! I'm a human being! I am a person! (The elephant Man)
A harrowing phrase of the protagonist of this film, Joseph Merrick, affected by a rare disease that disfigured his face. Extracted from the film directed by the great David Lynch.
9. Hello! I'm Chucky, do you want to play? (Chucky)
After the appearance of a child's doll, the real diabolical doll was hidden.
10. Have you ever felt those sharp things in the back of your neck? It's them ... (The Sixth Sense)
Another terrifying phrase taken from the film by M. Night Shyamalan.
11. I'm afraid to close my eyes. I'm afraid to open them. (The Blair Witch Project)
A low cost film that caused a great impact on his time.
12. Pablo, record it all, for your mother! (Rec)
From one of the few horror films that Spanish cinema has given.
Quotes about the terror that several celebrities pronounced
To continue, We are going to know different famous phrases about the terror that great writers, politicians and thinkers left us of history.
13. To put it bluntly, in all the villages a brief period of terror is needed. (Mao Zedong)
A way of saying that political authoritarianism is justified in certain historical contexts.
14. Terror reigns in government, and there is no thing as cruel as fear, when fear has weapons in hand. (Rafael Barrett)
Fear manages to appease us before power.
15. We believe that there is a limit in fear. However, it is only that way until we encounter the unknown. We all have unlimited amounts of terror. (Peter Hoeg)
If this sentence lets you sleep tonight, you're cold like an iceberg.
16. Terror is the feeling that paralyzes the mind in the presence of all that is serious and constant in human suffering and unites it with the secret cause. (James Joyce)
A pretty accurate definition.
17. Terror breeds terror, always ready to become a terrorist counter terror: endless dialectic of violence. (José Luis Aranguren)
The law of talion leads to a disastrous spiral.
18. Terror has been used repeatedly throughout history to establish an obedient and neutral society in the face of injustice. (Bertrand Regader)
The Spanish psychologist analyzes in this sentence the influence of the regimes of fear.
19What until then had maintained this practice of torture, was not an economy of example, in the sense in which it would be understood in the epoch of the ideologues (that the representation of the penalty prevails over the interest of the crime), but a politics of terror: to make everyone sensitive about the body of the criminal, the unbridled presence of the sovereign. The ordeal did not restore justice; reactivated power. (Michel Foucault)
Theorist of biopower, Foucault described the way in which power bases its authority on terror and self-censorship.
20. The example was sought not only by raising the awareness that the slightest infraction ran the risk of being punished, but provoking an effect of terror by the spectacle of power falling on the culprit. (Michel Foucault)
Another famous quote of the French psychoanalyst and sociologist.
- More phrases by Michel Foucault
21. Politics is made up of the words used to justify the terror of the State. (Izzat Haykal)
Words of the Barcelona political scientist and writer.
22. Although in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in terror. (Herman Melville)
To reflect on fear and its hidden facet.
23. Old forms of government grow so oppressive that they must be eliminated, even at the risk of terror reigning.
A great phrase that links politics with oppression and fear.
- More phrases by Herbert Spencer
24. The terror of the politician is a society with the capacity to compare data. (Jonathan García-Allen)
Ignorance manages to crystallize authentic psychopaths in power.
