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Top 20 Robert Dunbar Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert Dunbar Quote: “Here, rancid air hangs heavily in a void, its texture thick, liquid, clinging, in a night full of the hot smells of decay.”

1. “Here, rancid air hangs heavily in a void, its texture thick, liquid, clinging, in a night full of the hot smells of decay.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “Maybe a person had to lose everything to find purpose.”

2. “Maybe a person had to lose everything to find purpose.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “Something new prowled, something voracious and well-adapted to this environment. Something bad. Even the wood seemed to shiver with fear. And, no, trees do not make a sound when they fall in the forest with no one around to hear. But just before they fall, they scream.”

3. “Something new prowled, something voracious and well-adapted to this environment. Something bad. Even the wood seemed to shiver with fear. And, no, trees do not make a sound when they fall in the forest with no one around to hear. But just before they fall, they scream.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “They spring from deep within us, these nightmares, these folktales. They speak of our deepest needs, the ones we have all been taught since childhood never to put into words, because dreams reveal our other face, the one we keep hidden, the Hyde to mankind’s collective Jekyll.”

4. “They spring from deep within us, these nightmares, these folktales. They speak of our deepest needs, the ones we have all been taught since childhood never to put into words, because dreams reveal our other face, the one we keep hidden, the Hyde to mankind’s collective Jekyll.”

— Robert Dunbar

Robert Dunbar Quote: “The unfortunate Elizabeth Bathori was said to bathe in the blood of young girls in order to preserve her youth and beauty. Apparently more than 600 maidens went down the drain before anyone noticed something amiss at the castle. How very inobservant the neighbors must have been.”

5. “The unfortunate Elizabeth Bathori was said to bathe in the blood of young girls in order to preserve her youth and beauty. Apparently more than 600 maidens went down the drain before anyone noticed something amiss at the castle. How very inobservant the neighbors must have been.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “They imbibed. It never went far, not among so many, but their naturally frantic edge amplified it, whatever the euphoric, pushed it until giddiness mutated into a sort of epiphany – a pack ritual. And rituals have power.”

6. “They imbibed. It never went far, not among so many, but their naturally frantic edge amplified it, whatever the euphoric, pushed it until giddiness mutated into a sort of epiphany – a pack ritual. And rituals have power.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “Long before haunted houses existed, haunted woods circled the globe. Homer knew it. The Brothers Grimm knew it. In legend, all the great mythic quests of self-discovery begin with the hero entering a dark wood. Some journeys also end there.”

7. “Long before haunted houses existed, haunted woods circled the globe. Homer knew it. The Brothers Grimm knew it. In legend, all the great mythic quests of self-discovery begin with the hero entering a dark wood. Some journeys also end there.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “They were all so young and so aware of it. Youth comprised their sole asset, which each understood, and such knowledge excited them as much as it haunted them.”

8. “They were all so young and so aware of it. Youth comprised their sole asset, which each understood, and such knowledge excited them as much as it haunted them.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “She twisted her body to the curtained windows, listening to the night. “Where are you, poor dead thing? Are you right outside?” The voice of the sea drifted on a low wind, like the noise a wolf might make in its sleep.”

9. “She twisted her body to the curtained windows, listening to the night. “Where are you, poor dead thing? Are you right outside?” The voice of the sea drifted on a low wind, like the noise a wolf might make in its sleep.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “Abandoned houses seldom turn out to be as empty as they appear. Voices fade, but echoes linger, intimately, sinking from room to room. And sometimes figures emerge from those shadows, if only in dreams. What could be more profoundly idiosyncratic than our nightmares? Always, there has been something personal about ghost stories. How surprising is it that so many concern writers in torment?”

10. “Abandoned houses seldom turn out to be as empty as they appear. Voices fade, but echoes linger, intimately, sinking from room to room. And sometimes figures emerge from those shadows, if only in dreams. What could be more profoundly idiosyncratic than our nightmares? Always, there has been something personal about ghost stories. How surprising is it that so many concern writers in torment?”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “Something deep in the human psyche has always seemed to yearn for ever more enhanced levels of savagery.”

11. “Something deep in the human psyche has always seemed to yearn for ever more enhanced levels of savagery.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “Cinema – all art really – has great power. Power to illuminate. Power to transform. For those of us who experience film as literature, classic movies comprised an introductory education in the genre. As kids, many of us went searching through library shelves for obscure source novels after seeing some old movie or other. It was the start of many an adventure.”

12. “Cinema – all art really – has great power. Power to illuminate. Power to transform. For those of us who experience film as literature, classic movies comprised an introductory education in the genre. As kids, many of us went searching through library shelves for obscure source novels after seeing some old movie or other. It was the start of many an adventure.”

— Robert Dunbar

Robert Dunbar Quote: “Sometimes sanity just means the ability to recognize the end of the road when you reach it.”

13. “Sometimes sanity just means the ability to recognize the end of the road when you reach it.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “Even the spate of clearly well-intentioned films about AIDS only added to the certainty that gay characters wind up dead by the final reel. After all, in the movies, no one lives with HIV... perhaps the ultimate stigmatization.”

14. “Even the spate of clearly well-intentioned films about AIDS only added to the certainty that gay characters wind up dead by the final reel. After all, in the movies, no one lives with HIV... perhaps the ultimate stigmatization.”

— Robert Dunbar

Robert Dunbar Quote: “Hope can be the cruelest thing. But it was all she had.”

15. “Hope can be the cruelest thing. But it was all she had.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “They say a basis in fact underlies most legends. They say it all the time, all those Wise Elders in all those old horror films, the high priests, the scientists, the gypsy fortune tellers. On this single issue they agree unanimously.”

16. “They say a basis in fact underlies most legends. They say it all the time, all those Wise Elders in all those old horror films, the high priests, the scientists, the gypsy fortune tellers. On this single issue they agree unanimously.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “The original Gothic horror tales focused on personalities deformed through loneliness. Ghouls, vampires, werewolves: all made, not born. But the isolation? Are even such as these ever truly alone? Perhaps the psyche has always been more complex than that, desire eternally more potent than terror. Surely, none prowl entirely in solitude.”

17. “The original Gothic horror tales focused on personalities deformed through loneliness. Ghouls, vampires, werewolves: all made, not born. But the isolation? Are even such as these ever truly alone? Perhaps the psyche has always been more complex than that, desire eternally more potent than terror. Surely, none prowl entirely in solitude.”

— Robert Dunbar

Robert Dunbar Quote: “Take a deep breath and read. It’ll calm you.”

18. “Take a deep breath and read. It’ll calm you.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “Blessed is the creature that knows its purpose.”

19. “Blessed is the creature that knows its purpose.”

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Robert Dunbar Quote: “It’s not about slaying monsters,” he told her. “Not these days. I think it’s about learning to live with them. Anyway who says we’re the good guys?” “I.”

20. “It’s not about slaying monsters,” he told her. “Not these days. I think it’s about learning to live with them. Anyway who says we’re the good guys?” “I.”

— Robert Dunbar

Robert Dunbar Quote: “Life was short and brutal; so were the neighbors.”

21. “Life was short and brutal; so were the neighbors.”

— Robert Dunbar

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