# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/162 "2015-01-08T19:42:14Z")
> [@Mort\_Furd](#): > > Very close. > > The flood in this case refers to the one in the bible that old Noah survived. > > In other words, we’ve fucked shit up so bad that all we have done will be destroyed for its evil. That’s not quite the sentiment we (French) take it as - today the quote means “when we’re gone, God may as well erase the entire world for all I care”, or “Damn the consequences”. Although when Louis XV (reportedly, probably apocryphally) said it he did mean something more along the lines of “When I’m gone, this country’s going to crash and burn _so hard_, you guys, I’m not even kidding” i.e. “I’m the only thing holding this bitch together”. I’d say he was [about right](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day). ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/163 "2015-01-08T21:36:00Z")
In his book _The Psychopath Test_, Jon Ronson recounts a university study of psycopaths to determine if they are able to identify emotions in other people. The researcher showed one subject a photo of a person expressing fear and the subject replied: “I don’t know what emotion that is, but that’s the face everyone made just before I killed them.” ---
**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 8, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/164 "2015-01-08T21:43:12Z")
They’re coming to get you Barbara. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/165 "2015-01-08T22:07:12Z")
Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth. I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me." ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/166 "2015-01-08T23:19:18Z")
My top three creepiest quotes: “I’ve done far worse than kill you. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on . . . hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me. As you left her. Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet . . . buried alive.” “My pop was real big. He did like he pleased. That’s why everybody worked on him. The last time I seen my father, he was blind in the cedars from drinking. And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he don’t suck out of it, it sucks out of him - until he shrunk so wrinkled and yellow even the dogs didn’t know him.” “MMMbop, ba duba dop ba do bop, ba duba dop ba do bop, ba duba dop ba do, yeah yeah.” ---
**Author:** ![Abracadebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Abracadebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abracadebra)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/167 "2015-01-09T00:00:31Z")
“He looks like anybody you see on the street. But when he grins, birds fall dead off telephone lines…the grass yellows up and dies where he spits. He’s always outside. He came out of time…He has the name of a thousand demons. Jesus knocked him into a herd of pigs once. His name is Legion. He’s afraid of us…He knows magic. He can call the wolves and live in the crows…He’s the king of nowhere.” ― Stephen King, The Stand ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/168 "2015-01-09T01:21:19Z")
Las puertas, están cerradas, ventanas y celosías, No soy el amor, amante, Soy la Muerte, Dios me envía. Roughly translated: I ain’t your lover, Mr Zipper Problem. I am the death God has sent you. The song is said to date back to the 1500’s when syphilis was raging in Europe. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/169 "2015-01-09T02:25:58Z")
“I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” —Genghis Khan, to the Khwarazmian Empire. “Mess with someone who’s got nothin’ to lose, and you get what’s comin’ to ya.” ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/170 "2015-01-09T03:14:15Z")
"And the silence was deeper that night across the face of the world, from pole to pole, deeper than it had ever been before in the life of the creatures that called themselves human. “But not as deep as it would soon become.” – Harlan Ellison, “On the Slab” ---
**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 9, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/171 "2015-01-09T03:36:46Z")
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. If the eyes are the windows of the soul, these windows looked in on an empty room. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/172 "2015-01-09T12:04:25Z")
From _Breaking Bad_: “Good luck… I guess” Lawson the arms dealer, after selling Walter White a fully-automatic M60 and an ungodly amount of armor piercing ammunition. This one might be more darkly-comic than scary-blood curdling, but it was one of my favorite lines in the novel _Hannibal_: [spoiler]Clarice has broken up the attempt by a surviving victim of Hannibal Lecter to torture him to death in revenge. Still not out of danger, she tells him, “Do right and you’ll live through this”. Lecter, whom we have just seen living in Florence, steeped in the medieval Roman Catholic culture which we now know has shaped him so much, replies:[/spoiler]_“Spoken like a Protestant”_ ---
**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:** [January 9, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/173 "2015-01-09T13:16:39Z")
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” - Shirley Jackson, _The Haunting of Hill House_ ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/174 "2015-01-09T14:55:19Z")
The last line of Primo Levi’s _The Drowned and the Saved_ – Levi was a survivor of the Holocaust, and this was the last book he wrote before he died a mysterious death (probably suicide): “Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting.” ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/175 "2015-01-09T20:40:47Z")
Samuel Jackson quoting the bible in _Pulp Fiction_: > [@](#): > > “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the > inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in > the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of > darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost > children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious > anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know > my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.” From the Pink Floyd song “Hey You”: > [@](#): > > But it was only a fantasy > The wall was too high as you can see > No matter how he tried he could not break free > And the worms ate into his brain. From the King Diamond album _Abigail_, the first song/track “Funeral”: > [@](#): > > We are gathered here tonight, > to lay to rest Abigail LaFey, > whom we now know > was first born dead > on The 7th Day of July 1777. > > Abigail must be nailed to her coffin > with 7 silver spikes, > 1 through each arm, hand and knee, > and let the last of the 7 be drawn through > her mouth > so that she may never rise and cause evil again > > Who will be the first? > > “I O’Brien of the Black Horsemen.” ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/176 "2015-01-09T21:38:37Z")
“Call it.” Anton Chigurh ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/177 "2015-01-09T21:58:37Z")
_Grains of the golden sand — How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep — while I weep! O God! Can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?_ ``` -Edgar Allan Poe ``` ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/178 "2015-01-10T16:20:44Z")
“Heaven brings forth innumerable things to nurture man. Man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.” From a stele erected by Zhang Xianzhong, 16th century conqueror. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/179 "2015-01-10T23:22:04Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > “And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he don’t suck out of it, it sucks out of him - until he shrunk so wrinkled and yellow even the dogs didn’t know him.” Good one. From one of my five favorite books. ---
**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/180 "2015-01-11T01:02:56Z")
US Admiral Harold Stark to Japanese Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor: > [@](#): > > If you attack us we will break your empire before we are through with you. While you may have initial success due to timing and surprise, the time will come when you too will have your loses but there will be this great difference. You not only will be unable to make up your losses but will grow weaker as time goes on; while on the other hand we not only will make up our losses but grow stronger as time goes on. It is inevitable that we shall crush you before we are through with you. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scary-bloodcurdling-quotes/267169/181 "2015-01-11T02:20:41Z")
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