# Favorite scary, bloodcurdling quotes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 2, 2004, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169 "2004-10-02T08:35:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/182 "2015-01-11T02:36:36Z")
\*I have been sent here by God to punish you for your wickedness. You must be very wicked, indeed, to deserve a punishment as bad as me.\* Genghis Khan ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/183 "2015-01-11T06:57:33Z")
So run, you cur, run. Tell all the other curs the law’s coming! You tell 'em\* I’m\* coming, and\* hell’s\* coming with me. While the angels, all pallid and wan, uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, ‘man,’ and it’s hero, The Conqueror Worm. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/184 "2015-01-11T18:22:07Z")
_Oderint, dum metuant_. Let them hate me, so long as they fear me. - Caligula ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/185 "2015-01-12T18:35:07Z")
Believe it or not, it was my daughter. She woke me from a dead sleep to whisper, _Mommy, I will love you forever. Until the day you die. THE DAY. YOU. DIE._ She’s 5, but she has this really long hair that makes her look like the girl from _The Ring_ in the middle of the night - all ropey and black hanging down over her face almost to her hips. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/186 "2015-01-13T00:12:34Z")
“Mommy? Why does everybody have a bomb?” That used to creep me the fuck out as a kid. Possibly not just as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/187 "2015-01-13T01:57:27Z")
I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/188 "2015-01-13T02:26:02Z")
Jonathan Hickman’s excellent _ **East of West** _ is good for this. Every issue, on the cover, opens with the following: > [@](#): > > This is the world. It’s not the one we were supposed to have, but it’s the one we made. > > We did this. We did it with open eyes and willing hands. We broke it, and there is no putting it back together. Every issue ends with the following: > [@](#): > > We would tell you to pray, but it wouldn’t do any good. > > You have **earned** what is coming to you. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/189 "2015-01-13T13:14:48Z")
I’ll fuck you till you love me, faggot!" - Mike Tyson, at a press conference. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/190 "2015-01-13T13:42:55Z")
Thomas Jefferson [writing from Paris](http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/tree-liberty-quotation) on the occasion of Shay’s Rebellion, back home: > [@](#): > > What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. By 1793, developments in Paris inspired [this](http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-25-02-0016): > [@](#): > > The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is. Cavalier words from one whose own Revolutionary service involved a stint as Governor of Virginia; his loss of Richmond to Benedict Arnold has been termed “less than Churchillian.” TJ was never in danger of shedding blood–his own or anybody else’s. (He had overseers to do the flogging.) ---
**Author:** ![lister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lister)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/191 "2015-01-13T14:26:39Z")
“_The screams of children keep me awake at night_” A WWII SS Officer working in a concentration camp complaining in his journal that children are ruining his sleep. ---
**Author:** ![lister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lister)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/192 "2015-01-13T14:32:22Z")
“_When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things: one part of me … her right; the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick_” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/193 "2015-01-13T16:56:42Z")
“Daddy, I’m scared of these woods.” “You’re scared? I’m the one who has to walk back out by myself.” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/194 "2015-01-14T18:54:24Z")
“To realize that all your life—you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain—it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there’s a monster at the end of it.” –Rustin Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) in _True Detective_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169.md?page=9)