24 horror phrases to make you feel real fear

Terror and horror, from the point of view of cinema and politics. Will you manage to sleep tonight?

Are you looking for horror phrases to test your courage? If you want to fall asleep tonight, don't read any further, because these famous quotes and phrases about fear and horror will have you thinking for weeks.

Horror movies, 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.

Horror and horror phrases in movies

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 movies but also in literature and in the world of politics and philosophy.

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

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

2. Horror movies don't create killers... They just make 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 would give anything if the portrait would grow old, while I remain young. Yes, so does my soul. (The Portrait of Dorian Grey)

Prey to 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 watched it; and just says, "You'll be dead in 7 days." (The Ring)

A macabre end after watching 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 gloomy 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.

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

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

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

Behind the appearance of a childish doll was hidden the real diabolical doll.

10. Have you ever felt those sharp things in the back of your neck? It's them... (The Sixth Sense)

Another terrifying phrase extracted 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 caused a great impact in its time.

12. Pablo, film everything, by your **** mother! (Rec)

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

Phrases about terror uttered by several famous people.

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

13. To put it frankly, every village needs a brief period of terror. (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 its hand. (Rafael Barrett)

Fear manages to placate us in the face of power.

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

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

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

Quite an accurate definition.

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

The law of retaliation leads us into 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 up to then had maintained this practice of torture was not an economy of example, in the sense in which it would have to be understood in the time of the ideologues (that the representation of the punishment prevails over the interest of the crime), but a policy of terror: to make sensitive to all, on the body of the criminal, the unbridled presence of the sovereign. The torture did not restore justice; it reactivated power. (Michel Foucault)

A theorist of biopower, Foucault 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 was in danger of being punished, but also 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 political scientist and writer from Barcelona.

22. Although in many of its aspects this visible world seems 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 reigning terror.

A great phrase linking politics with oppression and fear.

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

Ignorance manages to crystallize true psychopaths in power.