Horrific Quotes

“I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black: A novel

“Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Denial returned, like a nagging cough you can never quite shake. Actually, it was always close at hand, and even though "satanic ritual abuse" did describe what had happened to me when I was a child. the concept was so foreign and so horrific that some part of me still wanted to stay in denial.
Devil worship dominated my childhood. That was undeniable, even if it was still nearly impossible to contemplate. Both of my parents and any number of their friends, as well as "respected" members of our community, had worshipped Satan.
I pushed the notion aside with all the power I could muster. I kept thinking to myself that it was ridiculous and impossible.
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― Suzie Burke, Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse

“Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got sick - I with a sinus infection, and the entire film crew with a flu so severe they had to delay their departure from the motel. Our immune systems had weakened, I believe, from the beating out souls had taken.”
― Anna Salter, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders

“When he meets my eyes, his expression is anguished. He cannot help me.

I fight as they press me down to the floor. Bite when they try to pry open my mouth.

But it's all for nothing. Two soldiers hold my wrists, and a third hooks a barbed instrument through the end of my tongue. He pulls it taut.

Then a fourth begins slicing through it with a curved dagger.

The sharp, searing pain makes me want to cry out, but I cannot with my tongue nailed in place. My mouth goes from dry from being held open to full of blood. Flooded with it. Gagging. Drowning. I choke as they release me, the scream dying in my throat.

Scarlet flows over my chin. When I move, flecks of red fly.

The pain swallows me whole so that I barely can concentrate, but I know I am losing too much blood. It spills from between my lips, slicks my neck, stains the collar of my dress. This is going to kill me. I am going to die, here on the ice floor of the Citadel.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Gosnell turned almost no one away from the Women’s Medical Society clinic. This is not meant as a compliment. Repentant Gosnell employee Adrienne Moton testified he would perform abortions on any girls or women with no concern about the age of their babies. The only times she could recall Gosnell refusing to perform an abortion was when somebody’s Social Security number couldn’t be verified. In those cases, Gosnell was worried that the “patient” was an undercover cop.”
― Ann McElhinney, Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

“The whole point of international terrorism is to shock the world with the most horrific spectacle imaginable.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“No horrific thing done by a people today is ever justified by what horrible things people have done before.”
― Chuck Bridges

“Perhaps the ghastliest disease endemic to mosquitia is Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis, sometimes called white leprosy, caused by the bite of an infected sand fly. The Leishmania parasite migrates to the mucus membranes of the victim's nose and lips and eats them away, eventually creating a giant, weeping sore where the face used to be.”
― Douglas Preston, The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

“I cannot engage in the remembrance of the 9-11 attacks because I am aware of the far greater number of horrific deaths of innocent civilians that the USA unleashed in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
― Steven Magee

“Tragedy occurred outside normal time, everyday convention. It possessed a bewildering ability to fade and grow brighter simultaneously.”
― David Hewson, The House of Dolls

“Violence at a distance was still horrific and should be felt just as deeply.”
― Rachel Caine , Sword and Pen

“To ‘pretend’ to live life is to pretend that pretending is acceptable when in reality it is ignorance of the greatest sort and thievery of the more horrific kind.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Cassian's scream as his wings shredded under talons of pure magic was the most horrific sound I'd ever heard.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury