Famous quotes containing the word horror:
“When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and ... if I think of human beings Ive known and of my own life, such as it is, I cant recall any case of pain which didnt, on the whole, enrich life.”
—Malcolm Muggeridge (19031990)
“When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, Good God, my Lord, dont talk of that! Nay, said Sir Robert, it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel itnor you neither.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)