# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/41 "2004-10-03T10:34:47Z")
[QUOTE=Malodorous] This is fun, in a morbid sort of way, good for the halloween season. Here’s some more I thought of: "Eatherly never stopped having nightmares about what he had done. “He said he could feel those people burning.” -Brother of Claude Eatherly, who chose Hiroshima as the site for the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Taken from the last line of his obituary Actually, Claude Eatherly was a fraud/nutcase who only claimed to have been the guy who bombed Hiroshima. It was actually Col. Paul Tibbetts, who commanded the Enola Gay and who doesn’t seem to have ever lost a moment’s sleep over it. Eatherly was a cause celebre back in the 60’s when, to quote Bernard Levin in The Pendulum Years, “Shortly after {Hiroshima} he had repented of his part in it, and for the rest of his life sought expiation by demanding, and getting, punishment. This he had achieved by taking to a life of petty crime and mental breakdown; in and out of prison and hospital, he wandered through the world, a self-created Ishmael, taking the burden of man’s terrible sin on his own shoulders.” He was believed by millions, and his made-up claims were even the subject of a best-selling book, Burning Conscience, written by a guy named Gunter Anders, which depicted him as a latter-day Christ figure. Anders, to put it mildly, skimped somewhat on his research, unquestioningly believing everything Eatherly told him. The whistle was finally blown by an author named William Bradford Huie, in a book called The Hiroshima Pilot. To quote Levin again “…Huie’s version of the Eatherly myth, though it disposed of it, was not thought, in the circles in which Anders’ version had had the force of scripture, quite comme il faut: some journals that had been keenest on the earlier version thought it better not to discuss the later, and to this day there are certainly many thousands, and possibly millions, who remained convinced that Major Claude Eatherly bombed Hiroshima and thereafter regretted having done so…” And my quote? “The only rights you got are the rights to shut up and do as you’re told.” Judge Dredd {the original comic, not the awful movie} ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/42 "2004-10-03T13:28:28Z")
“Overhead, one by one, the stars were going out.” ---
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/43 "2004-10-03T13:44:43Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > Kilgore: I love the smell of Napalm in the morning. It smells like victory. > > - Apocalypse Now Umm, IMDB says it’s “You smell that? Do you smell that?.. Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory. Someday this war’s gonna end…” All my favourites have already been mentioned annoyingly. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/44 "2004-10-03T14:02:17Z")
> [@](#): > > All my favourites have already been mentioned annoyingly. I assure you I posted the quotes in the least annoying way I could! ---
**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 3, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/45 "2004-10-03T14:05:45Z")
“His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.” - Lord of the Flies, William Golding ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/46 "2004-10-03T14:17:37Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Nitpick: It was Joseph Conrad, not Rudyard Kipling. 😉 > > (God, was that book ever tedious…) And guess what I have to read for English class? Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![cichlidiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cichlidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cichlidiot)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/47 "2004-10-03T16:27:00Z")
Even a man who’s pure in heart And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolf bane blooms And the moon is full and bright. From _The Wolf Man_. I thought it was from _Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man_, but I guess not. Either way, I’ve always liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/48 "2004-10-03T16:53:02Z")
“_Homo hominem lupus_” Man is a wolf to man “God is on our side” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/49 "2004-10-03T18:40:44Z")
Winston Churchill wrote a letter to the Emperor of Japan to inform him of Britain’s declaration of war. He signed the letter with the traditional diplomatic flourish, “Your obedient servant, Winston Churchill.” Some of his advisors thought that was a little too obsequeous, considering the situation. Churchill replied, "When you are going to kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite. My favorite Patton quote is “No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. Wars are won by making the _other_ son-of-a-bitch die for _his_ country.” ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/50 "2004-10-03T19:07:31Z")
> [@middlecase](#): > > Actually, Claude Eatherly was a fraud/nutcase who only claimed to have been the guy who bombed Hiroshima. It was actually Col. Paul Tibbetts, who commanded the Enola Gay and who doesn’t seem to have ever lost a moment’s sleep over it. Interesting, though for the record my quote doesn’t claim that Eatherly bombed Hiroshima (I actually met Tibbetts once in grade school), only that he choose the location. I found this article [here](http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/COLLECTIONS/CG-JPAP/Pages-2/CGP-JPAP-189.htm) that claims he piloted the _Straight Flush_ which scouted out Hiroshima before the Enola Gay dropped the bomb, this more or less fits the citation from my quote. [Here’s](http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.18/eatherly.html) a story from the Harvard Gazette that more or less colaborates this story, details his various mental problems and discusses various theories about whether or not they actually stemed from guit over the Hiroshima incident. Finally the [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) review of _Burning Conscience_ also seem to agree that the book only claims Eatherly piloted a scout plane that gave the Enola the go ahead to drop the bomb, not that he piloted the Enola itself. An interesting case, I’ll do some more research later if I have time. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/51 "2004-10-03T19:24:14Z")
Almost _anything_ **Tommy Di Vito** says in _Goodfellas_. " But, I’m funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you?" Joe Pesci, as Tommy Di Vito. He had his character fuckin’ _nailed_. Peace, mangeorge ---
**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, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/52 "2004-10-03T19:28:37Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > “Overhead, one by one, the stars were going out.” I recognize it, but I can’t place it. Help, please? The odd thing is, even without being able to name the source, it gave me shivers when I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/53 "2004-10-03T19:30:15Z")
My favorite terrifying quote- “When you have no light to guide you, And no one to walk beside you, I will come to you, I Will Come To You.” Hansen, I Will Come To You ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/54 "2004-10-03T19:50:21Z")
When that hitman in _The Sopranos_ sez the the car saleslady:\* “My face will be the last one you’ll ever see”\* ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/55 "2004-10-03T20:01:46Z")
> [@](#): > > by thirdwarning > Quote: > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by BrotherCadfael > > “Overhead, one by one, the stars were going out.” > > I recognize it, but I can’t place it. Help, please? > > The odd thing is, even without being able to name the source, it gave me shivers when I saw it. **The Nine Billion Names of God** , by Arthur C Clarke. ---
**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 3, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/56 "2004-10-03T20:04:34Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > My favorite terrifying quote- > > “When you have no light to guide you, > And no one to walk beside you, > I will come to you, > I > Will > Come > To > You.” > > Hansen, I Will Come To You Gigglesnort. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/57 "2004-10-03T20:09:02Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > What we need in this thread, are some heavy-metal fans who are into the lyrics. \*My eye’s are blind, but I can see.The snowflakes glisten on the tree,the sun no longer sets me free.I feel the snowflakes freezing me. \* Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath Vol.4) “Snowblind” He sings of cocaine addiction. It curdles _my_ blood because I’ve seen a few friends fall to this addiction (among others). ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/58 "2004-10-03T20:25:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Hush, little baby, don’t say a word, > And never mind that noise that you heard, > It’s just the beasts under your bed… _Enter Sandman_, by Metallica ---
**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 3, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/59 "2004-10-03T20:27:13Z")
For that matter, all of Ozzy’s solo lyrics. Example, _Diary of a Madman_ lyrics: “…a sickened mind and spirit the mirror tells me lies could i mistake myself for someone who lives behind my eyes will he escape my soul or will he live in me is he trying to get out or trying to enter me…” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/60 "2004-10-03T20:34:12Z")
> [@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.” Actually, a closer translation might be "I am _Time_, the Destroyer of Worlds. Substituting “death” for “time” is a rather liberal translation, but that’s no surprise coming from Oppie. However, I can’t read Sanskrit, and am not a linguist, so I could be totally FOS. [http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-11-30.html](http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-11-30.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169.md?page=4)