This collection holds 751 terror quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Oscar Wilde, Emily Bronte and Peter Hitchens.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Terror made me cruel.

Terror works by surprise.

This war on terror is bogus.

Joy is the reflex of terror.

I don't want terror in America.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Terror cannot be finished by one war.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

Terror collided violently with reason.

Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.

You don't talk to terror organizations!

The most terrible of all things is terror.

The United States cannot live with terror.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

Its never right to fight terror with terror.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

Arafat is the greatest instigator of terror.

Terror can never be defeated by force alone.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

Does every Muslim commit terror? Of course not.

Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.

In defeating terror, Israel's cause is our cause.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

I think humor and terror are very closely related.

A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

We cannot let our guard down in the face of terror.

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

All terror groups are bad, and we shall fight them all.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror.

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