“Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?” PossibilityHorrorAbsolutesBoredomMortalityEcstasyFlingSamadhi Author:Frederick Lenz
“I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.” WritingHumansSelfPhilosophyStoriesFoundPowerfulRaceReaderHorrorUltimateAbsolutesMonstersHuman RaceConspiracyHorror Stories Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“Buddy Hackett [was] talking - this is Hackett, not me - about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families ... the look of absolute horror. He's going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It's just total horror, and the camera's still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, "Anything else, Bud?"” LooksChildrenStillsTalkingHorrorDirectorsAbsolutesCamerasNoiseMaryRollingSay AnythingVirginsBuddyBudVirgin MaryLimerick Author:Bill Murray
“In the absolute sense - kind of from the God's-eye view - God might feel like, "I made this thing that has all of that in it, all the horror and all the beauty."” FeelsKindMadeMightEyeViewsHorrorAbsolutes Author:George Saunders
“As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films are opera, and they are... instead of consumption killing off the young lovers, it's Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. It is when the stakes are at their absolute largest in a story: whether somebody is going to live or die. In a way, it's just holding up a mirror to life.” WayStillsStoriesFilmYoungDiesFansLoversHorrorAbsolutesMirrorsKillingGenreObsessedStakesOperaConsumptionYoung LoveJasonHorror FilmMichael Myers Author:Bryan Fuller
“Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.” Life IsHorrorAbsolutesHorrific Author:Meg Rosoff
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” YearsLongDreamRealityMightHouseSilenceDarknessDoorsConditionsWallMetsHorrorStonesAbsolutesLaysWoodsHillsFirmSaneOrganismsBricksEightyLarksDarkness Within Book:The Haunting of Hill House Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.” WhiteWorstColorTerribleHorrorAbsolutesHospitalsNurse Author:Joan Mitchell