“Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so
anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result
being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if
he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
- Dalai Lama XIV
"The intellect is a great danger to creativity . . . you begin to
rationalize and make up reasons for things, instead of staying with your
own basic truth . . . you must never think at the type-writer - you
must feel . . . it should be a living experience."
- Ray Bradbury
“The people that don’t understand horror seem to think that all horror
fans get some sort of sick thrill out of dark and disturbing content.”
- Charles Schmidt
“The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they
leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of
vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things
considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of
ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. "
- Thomas Ligotti
"What always drew me to horror was the fact that it was set in a real,
familiar, and believable world. The best writers in the genre have a
firm grasp of this real-life world and the people in it – who, by the
way, are everyday mortals facing everyday problems. Then this world is
disrupted by the injection of menacing supernatural (or psychopathic, or
cannibalistic) elements. That equation can be turned on its head in all
kinds of ways, but that’s the horror I fell in love with and that’s how
I continue to define it. If half the cast of characters casually drink
blood or turn into animals from the beginning, I’m not interested. And
I’m especially not interested if they sparkle, okay? No sparkling,
please. If you have to sparkle, get a room."
- William Cook
“Whether you’re writing about
vampires, zombies, werewolves, demons, witches, ghosts or serial
killers, the tone, the mood, the settings, the characters, and the plot
should be so uniquely personal that only you could have possibly written
it. That is the only reason anyone should ever write any story, ever,
because you are the only person who could have written it.”
- Wrath James White
"Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely
illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion."
- Clive Barker
"Suffer the pain of discipline, or suffer the pain of regret."
"To Those Who Think,
To Those Who Dare,
To Those Who Do,
To Those Who Succeed.
Success is nothing more than taking advantage of an opportunity."
- Anonymous
“The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong
religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark
morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.”
- H.P. Lovecraft
"There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope
fiends are a better guide to reality than the commonsense interpretation
of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such
period, if you haven’t noticed already."
- Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson, “The Illuminatus Trilogy”
"All the best, for all the rest"
"There is no greater religion than Truth"
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a
monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze
into thee.” (§ 146)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself,
may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual
part."
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face
to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be true."
"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."
"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion
will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more
active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an
enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,
resolve."
"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."
"Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again."
"Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them."
"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
"To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair."
"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without
incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
- Henry James
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
"Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page."
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."
- Stephen King
"Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve
problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage
and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without
courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy."
- Dean Koontz
"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both
incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by
twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."
- Rod Serling
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
- Alfred Hitchcock
"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie."
"This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man."
"Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest."
"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
"In time we hate that which we often fear."
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."
- William Shakespeare
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
- H. P. Lovecraft
"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."
"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."
"Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as
distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
- Ambrose Bierce
"We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow."
"You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!"
"Sometimes I feel like a vampire."
"Then I learned that all moral judgments are ‘value judgments,’ that
all value judgments are subjective, and that none can be proved to be
either ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ I even read somewhere that the Chief Justice
of the United States had written that the American Constitution
expressed nothing more than collective value judgments. Believe it or
not, I figured out for myself–what apparently the Chief Justice couldn’t
figure out for himself–that if the rationality of one value judgment
was zero, multiplying it by millions would not make it one whit more
rational. Nor is there any ‘reason’ to obey the law for anyone, like
myself, who has the boldness and daring–the strength of character–to
throw off its shackles…I discovered that to become truly free, truly
unfettered, I had to become truly uninhibited. And I quickly discovered
that the greatest obstacle to my freedom, the greatest block and
limitation to it, consists in the insupportable ‘value judgment’ that I
was bound to respect the rights of others. I asked myself, who were
these ‘others?’ Other human beings, with human rights? Why is it more
wrong to kill a human animal than any other animal, a pig or a sheep or a
steer? Is your life more than a hog’s life to a hog? Why should I be
willing to sacrifice my pleasure more for the one than for the other?
Surely, you would not, in this age of scientific enlightenment, declare
that God or nature has marked some pleasures as ‘moral’ or ‘good’ and
others as ‘immoral’ or ‘bad’? In any case, let me assure you, my dear
young lady, that there is absolutely no comparison between the pleasure
that I might take in eating ham and the pleasure I anticipate in raping
and murdering you. That is the honest conclusion to which my education
has led me–after the most conscientious examination of my spontaneous
and uninhibited self."
- Ted Bundy
"It doesn't
matter what happens in your life.. even if you come across a wall so big
where you cannot see the top or end of it! As long as you follow your
conscience, have the willpower of an iron man, the determination of a
ram, and the dedication of an ant! You will smash straight through that
wall, and continue on to achieve personal victories in your life,
growing your defenses even stronger. Not letting anything change your
heart on what you feel to be the truth! Because whatever you set your
mind to (that you know to be right), you can achieve!"
- Chooka Parker
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