Frightening Quotes - Page 20

• What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire? Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?

  Libba Bray

  Memories, Home, Dark

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think?

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Night, Thinking

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• Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.

  Ron Paul

  War, Sacrifice, Loss

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• Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.

  Philip Pullman

  Religious, Moving, Makeup

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• It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

  John Cusack

  Process, Radical, Dues

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• It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.

  Bruce Forsyth

  School, Way, Speed

  "Didn't he do well". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2007.

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• How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

  Jack Gilbert

  Mean, Doe, Language

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Knopf

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• Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

  Hugh Jackman

  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

  Michael Sheen

  Thinking, Wonderland, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

  Ann Romney

  Strong, Healthy, Bangs

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• Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

  David Suzuki

  Powerful, Long, Healthy

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• I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

  Kevin McCloud

  Book, Amount

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• The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

  Haniel Long

  Desert, Incentives, May

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

  Lauren Oliver

  Law, Made, Lawmakers

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Annabel: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Writing, Adversity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

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• I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

  Lois Lowry

  Believe, People, Choices

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• We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.

  John Oliver

  Pie, Brave, World

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• People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.

  Garth Stein

  Dark, People, Speak

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• New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Tired, Ideas

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• I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Suicide, People, Bipolar

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• Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She'd count to four between each bite.

  Steven Levenkron

  Cutting, Meat, Pieces

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• I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

  Veronica Roth

  Fear, Inspiration, Way

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• There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

  Daniel Handler

  Teaching, Vegetables, Sea

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• Fear of the unknown... They are afraid of new ideas... They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on... "If something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me." What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beautiful, Reality, Ideas

  "Fictional character: Radio Lecturer". "Day & Night", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Idols, People, Election

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