# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/21 "2004-10-02T21:25:27Z")
“When I hear the word “culture”, I reach for my revolver.” - Hanns Johst or Herman Goering ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/22 "2004-10-02T21:31:50Z")
What we need in this thread, are some heavy-metal fans who are into the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![InvidiousCourgette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@InvidiousCourgette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InvidiousCourgette)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/23 "2004-10-02T22:40:09Z")
> [@chatelaine](#): > > Man, I hadn’t heard that one before. > > I’m not sure if the OP was referring to the following or the actual Bhagavadgita, but J. Robert Oppenheimer is quoted as saying [upon seeing the initial test of his atom bomb], “I am become death, the shatterer of worlds.” I have always heard that he used the word [destroyer](http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jrobertop101189.html) which scans much better. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/24 "2004-10-02T22:44:52Z")
> [@InvidiousCourgette](#): > > I have always heard that he used the word [destroyer](http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jrobertop101189.html) which scans much better. You know, I always heard that, too, but then I googled it to check and got both versions. While googling, I also discovered a book about him called J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds, so I picked that version as I thought it would be the more accurate. I’m really not sure which is totally correct. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/25 "2004-10-02T22:49:41Z")
On further googling, a [Berkeley exhibit](http://ohst.berkeley.edu/oppenheimer/exhibit/chapter3.html) gives this information: > [@](#): > > The lack of confidence in the implosion mechanism encouraged the undertaking of a single test. On July 16, 1945, night turned to day at the “Trinity” test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, in the first-ever detonation of a nuclear weapon. Witnessing the explosion, Oppenheimer reportedly remarked to his brother simply, “It worked.” Later he said that his thoughts turned to words from the Bhagavad Gita: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” We’ll go with that then. As you said, it does scan better. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![InvidiousCourgette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@InvidiousCourgette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InvidiousCourgette)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/26 "2004-10-02T22:50:35Z")
Either way, I think it is the tension that the words “I am become death” elicits that makes the spine tingle. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/27 "2004-10-02T23:06:41Z")
Coupla more… "Lewis said he could taste atomic fission; it tasted like lead. "—Notebook of Col. Tibbets. “Ultima ratio regum. (The final argument of kings)” - Inscription on french cannons, on order of Louis XIV Ranchoth (What, no Rorschach, yet?) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/28 "2004-10-02T23:25:16Z")
“Arbeit mach frei” (“Work makes [one] free”) –On the gateway above Auschwitz-Birkenau ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/29 "2004-10-02T23:50:17Z")
“Jedem das Seine.” (“Everyone gets what he deserves.”) – the motto of the Buchenwald concentration camp. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/30 "2004-10-03T00:19:49Z")
> [@](#): > > From hell > > Mr Lusk > > Sir I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer > > Signed > > Catch me when You can Mishter Lusk Jack the Ripper (disputed) ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/31 "2004-10-03T00:34:22Z")
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/32 "2004-10-03T00:39:49Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A[-------------------------------- “‘It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,’ Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.” _The Lottery_, Shirley Jackson --------------------------------[/QUOTE] One of my favorite stories, but the really chilling quote, for me, as a couple of lines sooner. “Somebody gave Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles.” Literally makes me cringe. ---
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/33 "2004-10-03T03:14:27Z")
“I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring with me a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” –The Crucible. While not particularly terrifying, it is the quote I most often resort to when such circumstances warrant it. And there’s always the classic “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/34 "2004-10-03T06:35:12Z")
Heaven lent you a soul; the earth will lend you a grave. Chinese proverb. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/35 "2004-10-03T06:44:03Z")
Life is a tale told by an idiot, with sound and fury, signifying nothing. L.A. Story ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/36 "2004-10-03T07:46:58Z")
“Apres nous, le deluge” - said by a member of Louis XIV’s court (please correct my French if it’s mistaken). > [@](#): > > L.A. Story :_snort_: ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/37 "2004-10-03T08:36:31Z")
Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge From _The rime of the Ancient Mariner_ ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/38 "2004-10-03T09:06:41Z")
Several years ago I saw an ad for a movie that showed a family unloading their station wagon in the woods. The point of view was that of something hidden in the woods watching them. I don’t remember the family’s name but it went something like: “Mike Johnson took his family deep into the woods to see something different…but something different saw them first!” ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/39 "2004-10-03T09:51:16Z")
I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse. - The Godfather Go ahead, make my day. - Dirty Harry I’m going to get medieval on your ass. - Pulp Fiction He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses; the most insipid food was alone endurable; he could wear only certain texture; the odours of all flowers were oppressive; his eyes were tortured by even a faint light; and there were but peculiar sounds, and these from stringed instruments, which did not inspire him with horror. - The Fall of the House of Usher, EA Poe. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/40 "2004-10-03T10:22:41Z")
Is it safe? - Marathon Man * * * Anyone that don’t want to be killed better leave right now. - Unforgiven * * * Colonel Walter E. Kurtz: I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream. That’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight… razor… and surviving. Colonel Walter E. Kurtz: We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember… I… I… I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that. Kilgore: I love the smell of Napalm in the morning. It smells like victory. - Apocalypse Now * * * [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169.md?page=3)