A horror movie is not only scary because of its visuals, but for some, words play a bigger role in making everything seem a lot spookier and scary. If you love horror movies, you might have come across these quotes that will surely scare even one who is not scared easily. Words can help you communicate with movies even more and unleash terror better.
Whether reading a book or watching a movie, dialogues and quotes are what make you feel like you are present there; that is when you feel the real scare. If looking for some of the scariest quotes ever written in books and shown in movies, below is a list given.
Spookiest Quotes To Read If You Dare
- “Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into a fire and into ice.”
– Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
- “Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don’t want to see such a mouth up close. Before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.”
– The Ritual (Adam Nevill)
- “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
– Robert Bloch
- “I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest – expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there’s nothing there, not even a beat.”
– American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
- “We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realized they were inside us.”
– Charles Darwin
- “So what, ghosts can’t hurt you. That’s what I thought then.” – Stephen King, “Bag of Bones”
“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”– I Am Legend (Richard Matheson) - “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
-The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
- “Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn’t there,
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away…”– Antigonish (William Hughes Mearns) - “Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells ’em off for a coupla stones.”
– The Diviners (Libba Bray)
- “You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.”
– Hannibal Lector, “Silence of the Lambs”
- “When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”
– Dawn of the Dead
- “I see dead people.”
– The Sixth Sense
- “The world was full of monsters, and they were allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary.”
-Stephen King, “Cujo”
- “I’m every nightmare you’ve ever had. I am your worst dream come true. I am everything you ever were afraid of!”
-Pennywise, “It”
- “Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can’t savor all the… little emotions.”
– The Dark Knight
- I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes… the devil’s eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply evil.”
– Halloween
- “We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.”
—H.P. Lovecraft
- “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
-William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”
- “Silence lay heavily upon the wood and the stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
– Shirley Jackson, “The Haunting of Hill House”
- “Be Afraid. Be very afraid”
– The Fly
- “Death has come to your little town, Sheriff.”
– Loomis, Halloween
- “There’s a monster outside my room. Can I have a glass of water?”
-Bo Hess, Signs
- “It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.”
– H.P. Lovecraft
- “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”
– Fredric Brown, “Knock”
- “Oh yes, there will be blood.”
– Saw II
- “Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.”
– Rémy de Gourmont
- “Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”
– Clive Barker, “Books of Blood”
- “Wendy, darling, light of my life, I’m not gonna hurt you. I’m just gonna bash your brains in.”
-Stephen King, “The Shining”
- “No one escapes from life alive.”
-Michael Crichton, “Congo”
- “The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.”
– Max Brooks, “World War Z”
- “Even the dead tell stories.”
-Marcus Sedgwick, “Revolver”
- “Welcome to my nightmare, I think you’re going to like it.”
-Alice Cooper, “Welcome to My Nightmare”
- “Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.”-Songs of Sapphique (Catherine Fisher) - “Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody.”
-Mark Twain
- “That cold ain’t the weather. That’s death approaching.”
-“30 Days of Night”
- “I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
-The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
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These are some of the scariest quotes you would find both in books and movies. Whether trying to place a spooky tombstone for Halloween or trying to scare your friend in the middle of the night, these will be enough to give a chill down anyone’s spine.