# 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:** 5
**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 4, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/81 "2004-10-04T16:40:33Z")
From Poe’s The Cask Of Amontillado “Enough,” he said “The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of cough.” “True-true” I replied. More from the same tale “Pass your hand,” I said “Over the wall; you cannot help feeling the nitre. Indeed it is _very_ damp. Once more let me _implore_ you to return. No? Then I must positively leave you. But I must first render you all the little attentions in my power.” And “Yes,” I said “for the love of God.” And from the Conqueror Worm “And the seraphs, all haggard and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, ‘Man’ And its hero the Conqueror Worm” My original post of Hansen lyrics was not meant as humor. Forget the original author, and forget the band. Imagine them as the promise of a monster. Pinhead will do. There are screams, the clinking of metal, the glints of steel hooks as every other person in the room is unmade. Trembling, soaked in blood not your own, you look up. He approaches you with a slow and stately grace befitting a pope. Like an indulgent father, he bends to whisper in your ear “When you have no light to guide you, and no one to walk beside you, I will come to you. Oh, I will come to you.” He straightens, and walks with that same unhurried dignity past the flayed corpses, leaving you alone- but with that promise of return. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/82 "2004-10-04T18:05:30Z")
“One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.” –Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/83 "2004-10-04T18:05:58Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > From Poe’s The Cask Of Amontillado > > “Enough,” he said “The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of cough.” > > “True-true” I replied. > > More from the same tale > > “Pass your hand,” I said “Over the wall; you cannot help feeling the nitre. Indeed it is _very_ damp. Once more let me _implore_ you to return. No? Then I must positively leave you. But I must first render you all the little attentions in my power.” > > And > > “Yes,” I said “for the love of God.” The thing that I find most chilling about the story ‘A Cask of Amontillado’ is that it’s not completely a fiction. Rumor and legend has it that during the 1820’s two officers serving on Fort Independence on Castle Island in Boston Harbor fought a duel over a game of cards. The one officer killed the other. However, the dead man’s friends refused to let that be the end of the affair: they took the officer down to the fort’s catacombs and sealed him into a chamber. Some time later, while Poe was serving in the military he heard the story, and it fired his imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/84 "2004-10-04T18:22:01Z")
Darkness Falls Across The Land The Midnight Hour Is Close At Hand Creatures Crawl In Search Of Blood To Terrorize Y’all’s Neighbourhood And Whosoever Shall Be Found Without The Soul For Getting Down Must Stand And Face The Hounds Of Hell And Rot Inside A Corpse’s Shell The Foulest Stench Is In The Air The Funk Of Forty Thousand Years And Grisly Ghouls From Every Tomb Are Closing In To Seal Your Doom And Though You Fight To Stay Alive Your Body Starts To Shiver For No Mere Mortal Can Resist The Evil Of The Thriller Blame it on **The Loaded Dog**. He stole my Coleridge quote! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/85 "2004-10-04T19:11:43Z")
With a nod to Lord Ashtar… Ghosts of friends frolic under the waning moon It is the year of death Wielding his instruments Stealth sovereign reaper Touching us with ease Infecting the roots in an instant Burning crop of disease -Opeth ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/86 "2004-10-04T19:34:19Z")
The Hellraiser films are always good for quotes, I think these are all from HELLBOUND (HR II)- The Cenobites (one said the first two sentences, Pinhead said that last one I think)- “First you didn’t know what the box was. Now you’re not the one who opened it. Poor Kirstie, so eager to play, so hesitant to admit it.” Pinhead- “Decieve us again and your agony will be legendary, even in Hell.” Dr. Channard- “What’s on the agenda today? Ah, vivisection. Pity- no anesthetic.” ---
**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:** [October 4, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/87 "2004-10-04T21:10:03Z")
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?” - The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/88 "2004-10-04T21:40:41Z")
More Shakespeare! > [@](#): > > Therefore, you men of Harfleur, > Take pity of your town and of your people, > Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command; > Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace > O’erblows the filthy and contagious clouds > Of heady murder, spoil and villany. > If not, why, in a moment look to see > The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand > Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters; > Your fathers taken by the silver beards, > And their most reverend heads dash’d to the walls, > Your naked infants spitted upon pikes, > Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused > Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry > At Herod’s bloody-hunting slaughtermen. > What say you? will you yield, and this avoid, > Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy’d? _–Henry V_ ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/89 "2004-10-04T21:42:16Z")
> [@](#): > > I saw him stab > And stab again > A well-killed Boche. > > This is the happy warrior, > This is he… Herbert Read, _The Happy Warrior_ ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/90 "2004-10-04T22:03:56Z")
> [@gonzoron](#): > > More Shakespeare! Actually, I think the part that comes before that is more chilling: _How yet resolves the governor of the town? This is the latest parle we will admit; Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves; Or like to men proud of destruction Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier, A name that in my thoughts becomes me best, If I begin the battery once again, I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur Till in her ashes she lie buried. The gates of mercy shall be all shut up, And the flesh’d soldier, rough and hard of heart, In liberty of bloody hand shall range With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants. What is it then to me, if impious war, Array’d in flames like to the prince of fiends, Do, with his smirch’d complexion, all fell feats Enlink’d to waste and desolation? What is’t to me, when you yourselves are cause, If your pure maidens fall into the hand Of hot and forcing violation? What rein can hold licentious wickedness When down the hill he holds his fierce career? We may as bootless spend our vain command Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil As send precepts to the leviathan To come ashore._ …and then comes the part **gonzoron** quoted. A while back I saw the filmed version of the English Shakespeare Company’s production of the play, with Michael Pennington in the title role – he delivered this speech very calmly, as if to say "Look, Frenchies, this is how it’s going to be. It was almost unbearably creepy. ---
**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/91 "2004-10-04T23:16:03Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > “Tuez-les tous; Dieu reconnaitra les siens.” > (“Kill them all; for the Lord knoweth them that are His.”) > > - Arnaud-Amaury, Abbot of Citeaux, 1209, when asked by the Crusaders what to do with the citizens of Beziers who were a mixture of Catholics and Cathars. Or in Latin: “Neca eos omnes, Deus suos agnoscet.” Did the Abbot issue his directive in French or Latin? (This quote is one of my all-time favorites from the blood-curdling, blood-spilling group.) WRS ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/92 "2004-10-04T23:51:11Z")
“He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.” - used in **It** and **'Salem’s Lot** by Stephen King. “It’s a Raymond Chandler evening And the pavements are all wet And I’m standing in the shadows Because it hasn’t happened… yet.” - “Raymond Chandler Evening,” Robyn Hitchcock. ---
**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 4, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/93 "2004-10-04T23:59:15Z")
I’m not sure of the copyright status of this one. (Lola Ridge died in 1941.) So you’ll have to click the link. [url="[http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/l/lo/lola\_ridge.html](http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/l/lo/lola_ridge.html)"My doll Janie has no waist And her body is like a tub with feet on it… ---
**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 5, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/94 "2004-10-05T00:01:24Z")
Actually, the link I screwed up indicates it’s in the public domain. My doll Janie has no waist and her body is like a tub with feet on it. Sometimes I beat her but I always kiss her afterwards. When I have kissed all the paint off her body I shall tie a ribbon about it so she shan’t look shabby. But it must be blue — it mustn’t be pink — pink shows the dirt on her face that won’t wash off. I beat Janie and beat her… but still she smiled… so I scratched her between the eyes with a pin. Now she doesn’t love me anymore… she scowls… and scowls… though I’ve begged her to forgive me and poured sugar in the hole at the back of her head. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/95 "2004-10-05T00:11:23Z")
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!- An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime . . . Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, - My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: _Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori._ - Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et decorum est” ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/96 "2004-10-05T00:55:25Z")
> [@WeRSauron](#): > > Or in Latin: “Neca eos omnes, Deus suos agnoscet.” > > Did the Abbot issue his directive in French or Latin? > > (This quote is one of my all-time favorites from the blood-curdling, blood-spilling group.) > > WRS I remember people (construction workers I worked with) saying “Kill them all”. It was a cold “tough guy” thing to say. So after milling around in this thread for awhile, I did a google on “kill them all quote” and found this website: [http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9442.htm](http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9442.htm) That’s really all I know about the quote. Very cold indeed. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/97 "2004-10-05T00:55:33Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > “Apres nous, le deluge” - said by a member of Louis XIV’s court (please correct my French if it’s mistaken). > :_snort_: It’s generally quoted as “apres _moi_ le deluge”, and attributed to Louis XV himself, soon before his death, and linked to the soon-to-come revolution (but of course, quotes are always attributed to famous people). ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/98 "2004-10-05T01:17:06Z")
“Those of you lucky enough to have your lives take them with you. However, leave the limbs you’ve lost. They belong to me now.” “As I said before, I’ve allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons. And the second reason is so you can tell him in person everything that happened here tonight. I want him to witness the extent of my mercy by witnessing your deformed body. I want you to tell him all the information you just told me. I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to know. And I want them all to know they’ll all soon be as dead as O-Ren.” “I’m a killer. A murdering bastard, you know that. And there are consequences to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard.” - the _Kill Bill_ movies That in heill was and gladness Am trublit now with great sickness And feblit with infirmitie:– Timor Mortis conturbat me. Our plesance here is all vain glory, This fals world is but transitory, The flesh is bruckle, the Feynd is slee:– Timor Mortis conturbat me. The state of man does change and vary, Now sound, now sick, now blyth, now sary, Now dansand mirry, now like to die:– Timor Mortis conturbat me. No state in Erd here standis sicker; As with the wynd wavis the wicker So wannis this world’s vanitie:– Timor Mortis conturbat me. Unto the Death gois all Estatis, Princis, Prelatis, and Potestatis, Baith rich and poor of all degree:– Timor Mortis conturbat me… Since for the Death remeid is none, Best is that we for Death dispone, After our death that live may we:– Timor Mortis conturbat me. - William Dunbar, _Lament for the Makers_ ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/99 "2004-10-05T01:48:06Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > I remember people (construction workers I worked with) saying “Kill them all”. It was a cold “tough guy” thing to say. So after milling around in this thread for awhile, I did a google on “kill them all quote” and found this website: > > [http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9442.htm](http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9442.htm) > > That’s really all I know about the quote. Very cold indeed. The modern equivalent, which I’ve heard is “Kill them all, let God sort them out”. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/100 "2004-10-05T02:00:29Z")
Let me see if I can remember this right. From the movie **The Prophecy:** **Satan** _(whispering to Fr. Thomas Daggit)_: Little Tommy Daggit… You would turn off the lights and run to bed as fast as you could, so afraid I was hiding under there. You know what? I was… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169.md?page=6)