C. S. Lewis Quotes

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Today fear, the most corroding of influences, is the moving cause ...

We need horror stories for people to focus on.

I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

They hate whom they fear.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.

It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: You're in a room with so many other people, so for them to be terrified and to care about what's going on on-screen takes a lot of work.

I always say that the horror genre and the comedy genre are close cousins because they are the two genres where you are attempting to elicit an involuntary vocal response from a crowd of people and you instantly know whether it's working or not.

I think what happens is when you have fear, fear translates into hatred.

That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake. What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

I think superstition has a lot to do with fear: the less, the better.

Scared ya, did I? Aw, that's sweet. Don't worry the shocks won't kill me," she whispered. "They only make me stronger. Anyway, it was worth it to give that cow a black eye, ya know?

People only respond to fear.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.