Sinister Quotes

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us

“Over the course of my life I've been to lots of places. Shadowed places where things have gone wrong. Sinister places where things still are. I always hate the sunlit towns, full of newly built developments with double-car garages in shades of pale eggshell, surrounded by green lawns and dotted with laughing children. Those towns aren't any less haunted than the others. They're just better liars.”
― Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

“The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)”
― Thomas Ligotti

“Where is Polonius?
HAMLET
In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“But I dog sit for those people. Once they notice he’s gone, they will ask me if I’ve seen him.”
“So what?”
“I pride myself in being an honest man. That’s what!”
― Cricket Rohman, Wanted: An Honest Man

“A hush, a silence accompanied this dusting of snow until an odd whistling sound broke through the numbness, coming closer, growing louder. What was that?”
― Cricket Rohman, Wanted: An Honest Man

“Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.”
― Doug MacLeod

“Life was about making sense out of the insensible.  A ball of fire out of a clear blue sky? Must’ve been a meteorite, maybe debris from an airplane. Random flashes of light and color at night? A transformer blew up, you must’ve been dreaming, you’re talking crazy, quiet down, take your meds.”
― Edward Williams

“The God that we commonly know may be less sinister than the true God that we don't know for sure.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

“When she opened her eyes they were confronted by a musical box against the opposite wall - one of those early Bavarian toys where mechanical figures perform to the tune.

'How odd,' she thought. The little stage showed a group of fiddlers, two couples in costumes like those of the ball she had just quitted, and in a doorway at the side, a gypsy or beggar man.

Very faintly the distant waltz came to her ears, but no footsteps ringing in the abandoned halls.

With her hand pressed to her unsteady heart, acting under a sudden compulsion, she pushed down the lever. Delicate plucked music started up; the fiddlers sawed with their clumsy arms in time to an ethereal waltz. The couples moved jerkily out and each raised an arm to clasp its partner. To various clicks and rumbles from under the floor they began to revolve with each other and to orbit round the room. Their movements were sinister because of being both reluctant and predestined. Here they were and this is was what they must do. ("Many Coloured Glass")”
― Lucy M. Boston, Ghost Stories

“All dreams are sinister.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“This was the reason for the spiritual attacks Lilac had experienced throughout her life, and she instinctually knew she would continue to be a target for the sinister energy forces that had yet to fulfill their destructive mission.”
― Lali A. Love, Heart of a Warrior Angel

“Sympathy? Not for me. No mercy for a criminal freak in Las Vegas. This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails - eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“My golf swing is like a James Cagney smile. It curves with sincerity, but it's also slightly sinister.”
― Jarod Kintz, To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“There are those who, even if valued, remain sinister witnesses from the past. James is for me such a witness. It is not even clear whether we like each other. If I were told today that James was dead my first emotion might be pleasurable; though how much does this prove?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“. . . solitary sinister men with terrible secrets — of whom Clement now and forever after must be one.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Do you know, when I stepped through that gate I felt as though I had walked into a new world...something quite different from anything I had known before. I felt that something tremendously dramatic was happening and because it was all so quiet and in a way ordinary that made it rather sinister.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“For Ben, this all had a sinister feeling, the feeling of a darker time about to begin.”
― Sandra Newman, The Heavens

“She had seen this monster too many times before; however, there was something especially sinister lurking behind the coldness of his exterior. Dragan had lost all his humanity as he allowed the evil running through his bloodline to reveal its putrid face, spewing hatred at his own flesh and blood.”
― Lali A. Love, Heart of a Warrior Angel

“I’ve never had a violent bone in my body. Devious, sure. But sinister, never. I’ve always been the calm one; the rational one.”
― Krystalle Bianca, Perfectly Fractured (The Imperfect, #1).

“The Stormcrow City is just a big meat grinder; People get in on one end, and comes out on another. We're just turning the handle.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pritajeno zlo

“my mother-in-law: duplicitous,
ever-present in the dark.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“Gollum’s eyes glinted. ‘He doesn’t know what we minds, does he, precious?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

“There was a town all made of sticks,
Which new men came and changed to bricks.
They tore the green grass from the ground,
Drowned out the silence with their sound.
They choked the air, destroyed the streams,
Which woke the forest from its dreams.
With vengeful heart, its blood did boil,
It pulled them down into the soil.”
― Sim Alec Sansford, Welcome to Denver Falls

“Is that your type? Sinister-looking? That’s not exactly what I envisioned when you said your ex was a poet.”
― Vi Keeland, The Invitation

“Only when you know the Streets & Parks at Night, the Whore-Houses, the Prisons, the Psychiatries & sometimes even more sinister Places — then you can truly claim to know a City.”
― Sino Melo

“Ricardo!” she gasped, skidding to a stop at the reception desk. “Do you have the spare key for room fifty-two? I think a guest is locked in.”
Ricardo narrowed his eyes. “There is no room fifty-two.”
“No, on the top floor in a scary statue . . .”
Ricardo raised a hand to stop her, pointing behind him at the board of keys. The numbers stopped at fifty-one. “See.”
― Kiera Nixon, The Dream Maker

“The rooms were doors set into the twinkling snow sculptures of handsome men and women. Giants caught in the ice by their endless waves of beard and silken tresses, desperation in their frozen eyes.
Maatje shivered. No, she didn’t like this floor at all.
A scratching and a thud came from inside one of the snow statues: a woman shaped with cruelty so dazzling it looked like loveliness.
Maatje jumped back. “I-I’m looking for the Manager.”
A tap tap tap was her only reply. A finger on the door in the snow woman’s ravenous, gaping mouth.”
― Kiera Nixon, The Dream Maker