Frightening Quotes - Page 23

• Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Strong, Home, Oil

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• Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

  Sue Thoele

  Letting Go, Patterns, Paradox

  Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.122, Conari Press

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• Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Soul, Today, Plastic

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.

  Ed Ayres

  Real, Rights, Friendly

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• The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.

  Lauren Bacall

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

  Shakti Gawain

  Pleasing Others, Firsts, Playing It Safe

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.102, New World Library

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• Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize that all our hard-won knowledge may only be provisional and the world may be quite different than we believe it to be. This can be very stressful, even frightening. But if we are not willing to wonder, we may have to hang up the phone on life.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Believe, Phones, Knowing

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• Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

  Julian Green

  Society, Becoming, World

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• My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Mother, Strong, Father

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• Cancer' is such a frightening word.

  Kris Carr

  Cancer

  Kris Carr (2007). “Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips”, p.17, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Ideas, Interesting

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• Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Military, War, Issues

  "Seven questions for Walter Russell Mead". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. January 16, 2010.

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• I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.

  Duffy

  Records, Coming Out, Feels

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• And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can't believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.

  Peter Steele

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state.
  Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little.
  Feeling is frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Feelings, Mind, Pathways

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.187, Random House

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• Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives.

  Michael Medved

  Kindness, Media, Messages

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• Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

  Pete Earley

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

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• My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been forever left behind; that knowledge is indeed a frightening affair; that the means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and that he must adopt a new way of life if he is going to survive. The first thing he ought to do, at that point, is to want to become a warrior.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mean, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (1971). “A Separate Reality.Further Conversations with Don Juan”

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• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  Zola Jesus

  Song, Empowering, Benefits

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• Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.110, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It is like becoming upset over a frightening dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Mistake, Ignorance

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• If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Believe, Goodness, Efficacy

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.

  Nick Nolte

  Success, Scary, Mind

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• As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Thinking, Aging

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• If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

  Paula Rego

  Facts, Becoming, Ends

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