Literary Horror Quotes

“Immortality is not endless life. It is endless memory.”
― Dario Fero

“Despite what had been visited on her body, she had looked more thoughtful than tortured, even melancholy. "Pitying," someone had told Mr. Carpenter who wished immediately he had not been told such; it unsettled him to think of a corpse despairing over the fortunes of the living. (98)”
― Cassandra Khaw, When Things Get Dark

“Together then. Together, and sealed it with a kiss that tasted of copper and starlight.”
― Michal Polgar, Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation

“Hope survives longer than it should.”
― Dario Fero, For ever and a day: The shadow side of immortality

“The ordinary face of collapse is not dramatic. It is a man in clean clothes deciding that his thirst matters more than a stranger's child.”
― Geoffrey Taber, LISTENING: From the Collapse Chronicles - Volume I

“The grievance, which had been so large for so long, was not refuted. It was simply revealed, at last, as the size it had actually always been: the size of one man, sitting on the ground, in the desert, very small under a sky that had never been empty.”
― D. Hermit, Before We Were Anything: a collection from D. Hermit

“It was clear that the city had none of the dignity of older capitals. It did not swagger like London, preen like Paris, or prize artistry like Vienna. Manchester was a brute. It pushed up its sleeves, and it smoked, and hammered, and grew.”
― Augusta Achard