“The Terror” is a gripping television series that blends history, horror, and suspense. It premiered in 2018 and is based on the novel of the same name by Dan Simmons. The show takes inspiration from the real-life events of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition in the mid-19th century, which aimed to discover the Northwest Passage.
Set in 1845, “The Terror” follows the crew of two British Royal Navy ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, as they navigate the treacherous Arctic waters in search of a passage to the Pacific. However, they become stranded and face unimaginable horrors as they battle extreme cold, isolation, dwindling supplies, and a mysterious supernatural presence that begins to haunt them.
The Terror Quotes
“We are all eaters of souls.”
James Fitzjames : There is nothing worse than a man who’s lost his joy.
“Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?”
Fitzjames : Gentlemen, we always feel worse in the darker months.
“All this natural misery,” Dr. Goodsir said suddenly. “Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse? Can you answer me that, Mr. Hickey?”
Francis : Keep your pity because you’re going to need all your pity for what’s coming.
“guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.”
“The Ice Master was too injured and too exhausted to crawl any farther. Let whatever was going to happen to him happen now and may a Sailor’s God fuck to Hell this fucking thing that was going to eat him.”
Francis : The sacrifice you men are making is worth great reward.
Shipmate : Shooting a man is a lot more fun when you mean to do it.
“In this cold, teeth can shatter after two or three hours—actually explode—sending shrapnel of bone and enamel flying inside the cavern of one’s clenched jaws.”
Sir John : It is my belief that God and winter will find us in safe waters by the end of the year.
“always visibly earnest and hopeful and strident and feminine and eccentric”
“God is our refuge and strength, and ever-prethent help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountainth fall into the heart of the sea, though its waterth roar and foam and the mountains quake with their thurging.”
Dr. Goodsir : Don’t fear it, David, I have been there when souls have passed. A great peace descends.
Francis : Friend. Mother. Lover. All the things they say a ship is to a captain, and they miss what really matters. Confessor. This ship knows everything about me, Thomas.
Francis : I’ll put a bullet in my head before I drink gin.
“Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities.”
“Hobbes’s Leviathan. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
“Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction – books and a sense of irony.”
- “No man can be fully free while his soul is in chains.” – Captain Francis Crozier
- “We all have a beast inside us. The stronger the chains, the more dangerous the beast when it’s unleashed.” – Cornelius Hickey
- “When the world turns against you, it’s important to have a family you can trust.” – Lady Silence
- “The Arctic doesn’t give a damn about your suffering.” – Dr. Harry Goodsir
- “We are no longer sailors; we are subjects of an empire adrift.” – Captain Francis Crozier
- “The frozen fields are vast. They can swallow a man whole, forget him forever.” – Lieutenant George Hodgson
- “There are only monsters in this world, Captain. Monsters and men.” – Cornelius Hickey
- “There’s no God here, Captain. Not for us.” – Dr. Henry Goodsir
- “Hope and desperation are two sides of the same coin.” – Captain Francis Crozier
- “The greatest danger lies in doing nothing.” – Captain Francis Crozier
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