Horrors Quotes

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors. - Arundhati Roy

Yes, its a love story. It also discusses the horrors of (the Second World War) in Germany. Its a biography of my parents life, but I wrote it in a novel form so it reads as a story. - Karla Reinhard

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. - Martha Gellhorn

What you have seen, O Americans, in New York and Washington and the losses you are having in Afghanistan and Iraq, in spite of the blackouts by your media, are only the losses of the initial clashes. ... You will soon experience horrors that will make you forget the horrors you have encountered in Vietnam. - Ayman Al-Zawahiri

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? - Sydney Smith

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. - Florence Nightingale

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago? - Randall Terry

What do you do, for instance, if the peace you are trying to keep breaks down and large numbers of civilians are in danger of being massacred? I said we must all do our utmost not to allow such horrors, and especially such appalling failures by the United Nations, ever to happen again. - Kofi Annan

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear? - Donald Pleasence