H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

Fear has many faces.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

The strongest passion is fear.

Fear does not have to be real to be powerful.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Fear is a real thing.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

Fear is excitement without breath.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

There is no worse emotion than fear.

Panic is a horrible thing.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

We're only human, and fear can eat away at you the closer you get to a big fight.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.