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

Horror films, despite giving us a hard time, we love them. How is that possible?
The adrenaline 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.

Phrases of terror and horror in the cinema

It is this film genre that leaves us the most brilliant phrases of terror . In this article we will review some of the most famous and remembered, not only those 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. Scary movies don’t create killers… it just makes them more creative (Scream)

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

3. Knowing you’re going to die changes everything. You feel things differently and 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 gore film that was released in 2004.

4. I’d give anything if the portrait grew old, while I remained young. Yes, so would my soul. (The portrait of Dorian Grey)

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

5. Then, when the video ends, the phone rings. It’s someone who knows you just saw it; and it just says, “You’ll die in seven 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 of the dismal game should try to escape to atone for their sins.

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

A post-apocalyptic horror quote.

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

A heartbreaking sentence from the protagonist of this film, Joseph Merrick, who was suffering from a rare disease that disfigured his face. Taken from the film directed by the brilliant David Lynch.

Hi! I’m Chucky, want to play? (Chucky)

Behind the appearance of a child’s doll was the real devil’s 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 M. Night Shyamalan’s film.

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

A low-cost film that made a big impact on his time.

12. Paul, record it all, for your [bleep] mother! (Rec)

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

Phrases on terror uttered by several famous people

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

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

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

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

The
fear manages to placate us in the face of power.

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

If this sentence lets you sleep tonight, you’re as cold as an iceberg.

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

A pretty accurate definition.

17. Terror begets terror, always ready to become counter-terrorism: an endless dialectic of violence. (José Luis Aranguren)

The law of retaliation is leading us into a disastrous spiral.

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

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

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

A biopower theorist, Foucault described the way power bases its authority on terror and self-censorship.

20. The example was sought not only by raising awareness that the slightest infraction was in danger of being punished, but also by provoking a terror effect by the spectacle of power falling on the guilty party. (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 state terror. (Izzat Haykal)

The words of the Barcelona political scientist and writer.

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

To reflect on fear and its hidden side.

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

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 capacity to contrast data. (Jonathan García-Allen)

Ignorance manages to crystallize real psychopaths into power.