Quotes on Macabre

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.