Top 70 Robert Bloch Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”

— Robert Bloch

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2. “Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.”

— Robert Bloch

3. “A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.”

— Robert Bloch

4. “People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child – I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

— Robert Bloch

5. “I haven’t had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister.”

— Robert Bloch

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6. “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

— Robert Bloch

7. “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”

— Robert Bloch

8. “Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.”

— Robert Bloch

9. “Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.”

— Robert Bloch

10. “We’re all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.”

— Robert Bloch

11. “Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly...”

— Robert Bloch

12. “There are times when you must stop analyzing and depend on your emotions.”

— Robert Bloch

13. “It’s all right”, he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. “It’s all right, believe me.”

— Robert Bloch

14. “Horror is the removal of masks.”

— Robert Bloch

15. “I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.”

— Robert Bloch

16. “That’s the way girls were – they always laughed. Because they were bitches.”

— Robert Bloch

17. “So I had this problem – work or starve. So I thought I’d combine the two and decided to become a writer.”

— Robert Bloch

18. “Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. It sounded as though somebody was tapping on the windowpane.”

— Robert Bloch

19. “You make yourself sick.”

— Robert Bloch

20. “Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.”

— Robert Bloch

21. “Talk about not knowing other people – why, when you came right down to it, you didn’t even know yourself!”

— Robert Bloch

22. “Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.”

— Robert Bloch

23. “She’d thrown something at the mirror, and then the mirror broke into a thousand pieces and she knew that wasn’t all; she was breaking into a thousand pieces, too.”

— Robert Bloch

24. “Magic – that’s just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn’t so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.”

— Robert Bloch

25. “The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence.”

— Robert Bloch

26. “Norman stirred, turned, and then fell into a darkness deeper and more engulfing than the swamp.”

— Robert Bloch

27. “He pressed a switch and the bedside lamp blossomed and sent forth yellow petals of light.”

— Robert Bloch

28. “Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. It sounded as though somebody was tapping on the windowpane. He looked up, hastily, half prepared to rise, and the book slid from his hands to his ample lap. Then he realized that the sound was merely rain. Late afternoon rain, striking the parlor window.”

— Robert Bloch

29. “You hate people. Because, really, you’re afraid of them, aren’t you? Always have been, ever since you were a little tyke. Rather snuggle up in a chair under the lamp and read. You did it thirty years ago, and you’re still doing it now. Hiding away under the covers of a book.”

— Robert Bloch

30. “He winced at the realization, then took a deep breath. This was no time to be self-conscious or self-critical. One had to be prctical. Very practical, very careful, very calm.”

— Robert Bloch

31. “But first he was going to take a drink, a big drink, because he needed one. And it didn’t matter whether he drank or not, nothing mattered now; it was all over. All over, or just beginning.”

— Robert Bloch

32. “Norman sighed and shook his head. He couldn’t afford the risk. Not while that thing still sprawled in the shower stall back at the motel. Leaving it there was even more risky.”

— Robert Bloch

33. “Yes, Norman, I suppose you’re right. That’s where I’d probably be. But I wouldn’t be there alone.” Norman slammed the door, locked it, and turned away. He wasn’t quite sure, but as he ran up the cellar steps he thought he could still hear her chuckling gently in the dark.”

— Robert Bloch

34. “So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.”

— Robert Bloch

35. “And then, as he ripped back the shower curtains and stared down at the hacked and twisted thing sprawled on the floor of the stall, he realized that Mother had used her keys.”

— Robert Bloch

36. “Nobody would be quite as surprised as my wife, when I killed her.”

— Robert Bloch

37. “Lila closed her mouth, but the scream continued. It was the insane scream of an hysterical woman, and it came from the throat of Norman Bates.”

— Robert Bloch

38. “You didn’t really forget. It’s just that you don’t want anyone to come, you hope they don’t come.”

— Robert Bloch

39. “Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.”

— Robert Bloch

40. “Strange how everyone tried to disguise truth with nonsense. Like the slang for death: kicking the bucket, wiped out, snuffed, wasted, blown away. The light touch to dispel the heavy fear.”

— Robert Bloch

41. “Besides, that thing was waiting for him. Waiting for him –.”

— Robert Bloch

42. “Lowery would half kill himself to make an extra dollar, and he’d be perfectly willing to kill any of his employees for another fifty cents. But.”

— Robert Bloch

43. “Mother would be in real trouble right now.”

— Robert Bloch

44. “The sun surrendered its splendor – why, it was like poetry; he was a poet; Norman smiled. He was many things. If they only knew – – But.”

— Robert Bloch

45. “As she reached the landing, the thunder came. The whole house seemed to shake with it.”

— Robert Bloch

46. “It was really a fascinating book – no wonder he hadn’t noticed how fast the time had passed.”

— Robert Bloch

47. “Norman took another drink, just a sip. He could feel the wetness trickle down the side of his chin. He must be drunk. All right, he was drunk, what did it matter? As long as Mother didn’t know. As long as the girl didn’t know. It would all be a big secret. Impotent, was he? Well, that didn’t mean he couldn’t see her again.”

— Robert Bloch

48. “And here, all along, she’d thought of herself as being so calm, so cool, so composed.”

— Robert Bloch

49. “But meanwhile he had to do something about the way his heart pounded.”

— Robert Bloch

50. “But she didn’t listen, she was in the bathroom, she was getting dressed, she was putting on make-up, she was getting ready. Getting ready.”

— Robert Bloch