Rudolf Otto Quotes

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

We're terrified of shocks but we're so fascinated by it at the same time. We're terrified of spiders and reptiles and all of that but at the same time you're fascinated by them - you want to go to the zoo and go behind the glass and look at all these creepy crawlies! It's the same thing with the supernatural. I think we're very frightened by it.

The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.

I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He gave us. And to endure well is to keep those commandments whatever the opposition, whatever the temptation, and whatever the tumult around us.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.

The dead walk among us.