24 horror phrases with which to feel authentic fear

Are you looking for horror phrases with which to test your courage? If you want to fall asleep tonight, better not continue reading, because these famous phrases and quotes about fear and horror are going to have you thinking for weeks.

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Horror movies, despite giving us a hard time, we love it. How is it possible? The adrenaline that we secrete When we see other people suffer, we put ourselves in their situation and the mystery keeps us attentive to the screen for hours.

Horror and horror phrases in the cinema

It is this cinematographic genre that leaves us with the most brilliant horror phrases. In this article we will review some of the most famous and remembered, not only those that we have ever heard in the cinema but also in literature and in the world of politics and philosophy.

1. Sometimes I see dead... (The Sixth Sense)

One of the most remembered, taken from the mythical film starring Bruce Willis.

2. Horror movies don't create killers... It just makes them more creative (Scream)

Another mythical horror movie, and a phrase that can make your hair stand on end.

3. Knowing that you are going to die changes everything. You feel things in a different way and you appreciate them very differently. However, people do not appreciate the value of their lives. They drink from the glass of water, but they don't taste it. (Saw)

Extracted from the mythical film gore that was released in 2004.

4. I would give anything if the portrait grew old, while I remain young. Yes, also my soul. (The Portrait of Dorian Grey)

Prisoner of his narcissism, young Gray sold his soul to the devil.

5. Then when the video ends, the phone rings. He is someone who knows that you just saw him; and he just says: "You will die in 7 days." (The Ring)

A macabre end after viewing the famous video of the well.

6. Let's play a game... (Saw)

This phrase was pronounced by the clown on the bicycle to announce that the participants in the gloomy game had to try to escape to atone for their sins.

7. When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk on earth. (Dawn of the Living Dead)

A post-apocalyptic horror date.

8. I'm not an elephant! I'm not an animal! I'm a human being! I am a person! (The elephant Man)

A heartbreaking phrase from the protagonist of this film, Joseph Merrick, affected by a rare disease that disfigured his face. Extracted from the film directed by the great David Lynch.

9. Hello! I'm Chucky, do you want to play? (Chucky)

Behind the appearance of a child doll was the real devil doll.

10. Have you ever felt those sharp things on the back of your neck? Are they... (The Sixth Sense)

Another terrifying phrase taken from the film by M. Night Shyamalan.

11. I am afraid to close my eyes. I am afraid to open them. (The Blair Witch Project)

A low-cost film that made a great impact on its time.

12. Pablo, record it all, for your **** mother! (Rec)

From one of the few horror films that Spanish cinema has produced.

Phrases about terror spoken by several famous people

To continue, we are going to know different famous phrases about terror that great writers, politicians and thinkers left us of history.

13. To put it bluntly, a short period of terror is needed in every village. (Mao Zedong)

One way of saying that political authoritarianism is justified in certain historical contexts.

14. Terror reigns in the government, and there is nothing so cruel as fear, when fear has weapons in hand. (Rafael Barrett)

The afraid manages to appease us to power.

15. We believe that there is a limit to fear. However, this is only so until we meet the unknown. We all have unlimited amounts of terror. (Peter Hoeg)

If this phrase lets you sleep tonight, you are cold as an iceberg.

16. Terror is the feeling that paralyzes the mind in the presence of everything that is grave and constant in human suffering and unites it with the secret cause. (James Joyce)

A fairly accurate definition.

17. Terror breeds terror, always ready to become a counterterrorist terror: an endless dialectic of violence. (José Luis Aranguren)

The law of the talion takes us down a disastrous spiral.

18. Terror has been used repeatedly throughout history to establish an obedient and neutral society in the face of injustice. (Bertrand Regader)

The Spanish psychologist analyzes in this sentence the influence of the regimes of fear.

19. What had maintained this practice of torture until then was not an economy of example, in the sense that it would have to be understood in the time of the ideologues (that the representation of the penalty prevails over the interest of the crime), but rather a politics of terror: making everyone sensitive to the body of the criminal, the unbridled presence of the sovereign. The torture did not restore justice; reactivated power. (Michel Foucault)

Biopower theoristFoucault described the way in which power bases its authority on terror and self-censorship.

20. The example was sought not only by raising awareness that the slightest infraction ran the risk of be punished, but by provoking an effect of terror by the spectacle of power falling on the guilty. (Michel Foucault)

Another famous quote from the French psychoanalyst and sociologist.

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21. Politics is made up of the words used to justify the terror of the state. (Izzat Haykal)

Words of the Barcelona political scientist and writer.

22. Although in many of its aspects this visible world appears formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in terror. (Herman Melville)

To reflect on fear and its hidden facet.

23. Old forms of government grow so oppressive that they must be eliminated, even at the risk of terror reigning.

A great phrase that links politics with oppression and fear.

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24. The terror of the politician is a society with the ability to contrast data. (Jonathan García-Allen)

Ignorance manages to crystallize true psychopaths in power.