Henry Rollins Quotes

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

I enjoy scaring people.

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

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

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

I think for a horror experience to be really scary, something has to be a bit of a shock and a surprise. It's like something you've never experienced before.

It's difficult, very difficult to create something new every time in this space of horror and scare people every time.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

I don't think I'm angry. I'm horrified - powered by horror.

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.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky Like that fearless flower --Sosuke Aizen,Flower on the Precipice

He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.

He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.

Insecurity kills all that is beautiful.

I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.

I think that laughter is very close to terror and horror. Maybe that's just me, but that sort of all - over rush that happens when you are either laughing or terrified or weeping...? I think that comedians, in and of themselves, make other people laugh because they aren't necessarily the happiest people in the world. So they know a lot about dark things.