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Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. -- John Arbuthnot
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! -- Dwight L. Moody
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. -- Max Beerbohm
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. -- Frank Herbert
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages. -- Martha Beck
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount. -- Andrew Hudgins
One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone. -- Jenny Holzer
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. -- Stendhal
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood. -- Dennis Potter
I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways. -- Julian Casablancas
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors. -- Bill Forsyth
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? -- Brendan Behan
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. -- R. D. Laing
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. -- Samuel Rutherford
Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.' -- Siri Hustvedt
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. -- John F. Kennedy
A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation. -- Lee Siegel
It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it. -- Israel Horovitz
I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you. -- Anthony Storr
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism. -- Martin Filler
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight. -- John Cusack
When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it. -- Kate Forsyth
In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. -- Jonathan Larson
For the night is dark and full of terrors. -- George R. R. Martin
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors. -- Tacitus
Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you. -- Poppy Z. Brite
Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. -- Margaret Drabble
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain. -- Herman Melville
Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main. -- Robert Southey
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air. -- Torquato Tasso
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me. -- Antonin Artaud
I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond. -- Christian Wiman
If we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can't disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims. -- Jeb Bush
Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ... -- Phyllis McGinley
Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated. -- Helen Yglesias
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. -- Frank Herbert
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. -- Frank Herbert
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. -- Orson Scott Card
We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. -- William Shakespeare
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. -- Bram Stoker
I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace. -- Dean Koontz
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. -- Dean Koontz
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. -- Oscar Wilde
I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about -- Edward Bloor
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors. -- Robin Boyd
No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open. -- W. G. Sebald
The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth. -- Ramon Llull
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors? -- Emile Zola
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate. -- Virgil
Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal. -- Haim Ginott
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been "a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor. -- Jack Zipes
Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away. -- Charles Bracelen Flood
The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment. -- Terence McKenna
Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you. -- Calvin Miller
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning. -- Max Brooks
Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life. -- Joseph Hertz
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged. -- Douglas Adams
He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise. -- Edith Wharton
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude. -- Derek Mahon
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors. -- Stephen King
The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had. -- Victor Hugo
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us. -- Robert Goolrick
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one. -- John Steinbeck
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it. -- George Orwell
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up. -- Leo Tolstoy
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell. -- J. C. Ryle
I have only the vaguest memory of a life before fear. Every morning when I wake up there is one blissful second before I took around the room and remember my daily terrors. -- Lena Dunham
I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge. -- Madeleine Albright
Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die. -- Omar Khayyam
But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people. -- Bobby Jones
If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives. -- Richard Matheson
Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down. -- William Faulkner
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair. -- David Seabury
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A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program. -- William Shatner

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