# 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:** 6
**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, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/101 "2004-10-05T05:00:08Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > The modern equivalent, which I’ve heard is “Kill them all, let God sort them out”. There are variations. I have also heard, “Kill them all except 6, we need pallbearers”. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/102 "2004-10-05T05:26:14Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > 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. Well, shoot, with THAT set-up, a damned shopping list would sound scary! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Niceguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mr.Niceguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Niceguy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/103 "2004-10-05T05:31:23Z")
"yeah I was there in Jerusalem, when they busted down the gates, and we killed every goddamn one of them and let out all our hate Yeah God sure is a bloody God God sure is a bloody God He knows how it is I guess si I do it for the lord" - David Childers ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/104 "2004-10-05T08:13:59Z")
“You ever listen to K-Billy’s ‘Super Sounds of the Seventies’ weekend? It’s my personal favorite.” – **Mr. Blonde** , _Reservoir Dogs_ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/105 "2004-10-05T16:12:19Z")
> [@Katisha](#): > > Actually, I think the part that comes before that is more chilling: > > …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. heh… I figured the whole thing would be too long to quote, so I just cut to the chase as it were. I’ll have to check out that version. Henry V is one of my faves. and another few quotes to stay on topic: “You did not seriously think that a hobbit could contend with the will of Sauron? There are none who can.” with the dreadful implication: not even me. 🙂 “Oh, I’m afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.” ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/106 "2004-10-05T17:09:56Z")
Unsure of the authors, and the first two are destined to be inscribed on a bicep near me, soon… I will not Surrender I will not Retreat I shall stand here and fight or I shall stand here and die. Moderatio est Figmentum (latin, “control is an illusion”) You say I sin You say I am bound for hell. So when your judgement condemns you I will see you there. Woe to you of earth and sea For the devil sends the beast with wrath because he knows the time is short. Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, It’s number, is six hundred, and sixty six (adpted from the bible, spoken by vincent price, on the Iron Maiden album, Number of the Beast). It is better to die on your feet Than to live on your knees -Emiliano Zapata And my newest favorite, not necessarily bloodcurdling, but… “Why is there enough religion to incite war But not enough religion to instill tolerance?” ---
**Author:** ![Anduin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Anduin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/107 "2004-10-05T17:24:53Z")
I actually keep a file of these. Who knew it would ever come in handy? “I looked and saw a pale horse; and the name of him who sat on it was Death; and Hell followed with him.” ‘That … be not told of my death, Or made to grieve on account of me, And that I be not buried in consecrated ground, And that no sexton be asked to toll the bell, And that nobody is wished to see my dead body, And that no mourners walk behind me at my funeral, And that no flowers be planted on my grave, And that no man remember me, To this I put my name.’ - Thomas Hardy Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he long’d to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. This, if I remember correctly, is anonymous. The original is also in French, but I was too lazy to translate it back. I put all my trust in things that I doubt The obvious alone is unclear; Certainty never knows what it’s about, And truth from sheer chance will appear. I’m still just a loser although I win all; “Goodnight” I say at day’s dawning. Even in bed I’m scared that I’ll fall And I’ve only got plenty of nothing ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/108 "2004-10-05T19:48:31Z")
Poe: “And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming” ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/109 "2004-10-05T19:52:11Z")
“Enemy of God, Enemy of Piety, Enemy of Pity.” - Motto of Werner Von Urslingen, 14th Century bandit and mercenary (supposedly chiseled into his breastplate) “Well he should have armed himself, before decorating his saloon with my friend.” - Unforgiven “I’m your Huckleberry.” - Tombstone ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/110 "2004-10-05T19:58:02Z")
“I didn’t kill anybody. Believe me, if I started killing people, there wouldn’t be anybody left.” -Charles Manson ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/111 "2004-10-05T20:13:13Z")
Truman Capote interviewed the two men that killed the entire Clutter family in Kansas when he was writing **In Cold Blood**. He quotes one of them (I forget which) as saying, “I didn’t have nothing against the man. I thought he was a right good guy, right up 'til the time I cut his throat.” That’s cold blooded. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/112 "2004-10-05T20:24:27Z")
Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/113 "2004-10-05T20:27:31Z")
And like it asks in the OP if you want a scary, bloodcurdling quote you have to go with: > [@](#): > > We are now the Knights who say…"Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG. Zoom-Boing. Z’nourrwringmm. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/114 "2004-10-05T20:35:38Z")
“The mortality in Siena began in May. It was a cruel and horrible thing. . . . It seemed that almost everyone became stupefied seeing the pain. It is impossible for the human tongue to recount the awful truth. Indeed, one who did not see such horribleness can be called blessed. The victims died almost immediately. They would swell beneath the armpits and in the groin, and fall over while talking. Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to strike through breath and sight. And so they died. None could be found to bury the dead for money or friendship. Members of a household brought their dead to a ditch as best they could, without priest, without divine offices. In many places in Siena great pits were dug and piled deep with the multitude of dead. And they died by the hundreds, both day and night, and all were thrown in those ditches and covered with earth. And as soon as those ditches were filled, more were dug. I, Agnolo di Tura . . . buried my five children with my own hands. . . . And so many died that all believed it was the end of the world.” ---
**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, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/115 "2004-10-05T23:24:07Z")
A careful investigation rendered it evident that she had revived within two days after her entombment; that her struggles within the coffin had caused it to fall from a ledge, or shelf to the floor, where it was so broken as to permit her escape. A lamp which had been accidentally left, full of oil, within the tomb, was found empty; it might have been exhausted, however, by evaporation. On the uttermost of the steps which led down into the dread chamber was a large fragment of the coffin, with which, it seemed, that she had endeavored to arrest attention by striking the iron door. While thus occupied, she probably swooned, or possibly died, through sheer terror; and, in failing, her shroud became entangled in some iron – work which projected interiorly. Thus she remained, and thus she rotted, erect. - The Premature Burial, EA Poe ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/116 "2004-10-06T01:32:25Z")
It’s almost a feeling you can touch in the air: You look in the shadows, but nobody’s there. It’s been a long time now since you’ve been aware That someone is watching you – _He’s gonna get you …_ Alan Parsons Project, “The Voice” ---
**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 6, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/117 "2004-10-06T02:18:44Z")
There are No clocks on the wall And no time, No shadows that move From dawn to dusk Across the floor. There is neither light Nor dark Outside the door. There is no door! _End_, Langston Hughes ---
**Author:** ![cromulent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@cromulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cromulent)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/118 "2004-10-06T03:30:12Z")
This one always makes me shiver: Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for Me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. - Emily Dickenson As does this: Wargasm Wargasm, one two three Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the amputee Masturbate, watch it on TV Crocodile tears for the refugee L7 ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/119 "2004-10-06T06:45:13Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > **The Nine Billion Names of God** , by Arthur C Clarke. Thank you. Even with the title, the story isn’t coming back to me, but I must have read it, because I remember reading that line and being quite freaked out. Guess I’ll have to look it up. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/120 "2004-10-06T07:04:11Z")
A. E. Houseman: If by chance your eye offend you, Pluck it out, lad, and be sound: 'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you, And many a balsam grows on ground. And if your hand or foot offend you, Cut it off, lad, and be whole; But play the man, stand up and end you, When your sickness is your soul. And one I saw recently: “As our children died, you did nothing. Now heaven help your children.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169.md?page=7)