Frank Herbert Quotes

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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.

I have a long, complicated history with horror.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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

We need horror stories for people to focus on.

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!

His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

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.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

The scalded head feares cold water.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.