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• Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Strength, Death

  "On Death and Dying". Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969.

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• And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

  Elton John

  Country, Gay, People

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• I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Dream, Scary

  Vincent van Gogh (1987). “Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality”, Gloucester

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• I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

  Richard Ernst

  Air, House, Parent

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• I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

  Don Van Vliet

  Thinking, Scary, One Word

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• To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

  Randall Jarrell

  Scary, Manners

  'Pictures from an Institution' (1954) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Children, Home, Parent

  Robert Neelly Bellah (1985). “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

  Wilfred Burchett

  War, Islands, Years

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• One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

  Neal Stephenson

  People, Scary, Nerd

  Neal Stephenson (2012). “Cryptonomicon”, p.646, Random House

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• I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

  Michael Hutchence

  War, Knowing, Scary

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

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• Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Communication, People, Silence

  William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA

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• A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

  Julie Burchill

  Fun, Independent, Men

  "International Women’s Day Quotes: 16 Inspirational Feminist Quotes for IWD 2017". metro.co.uk. March 06, 2017.

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• I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

  Barbra Streisand

  "Where They Said It". www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2007.

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• The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

  Brooke Shields

  Perspective, Priorities, Scary

  "Battle to Replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Begins". "Paula Zahn Now", edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2005.

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• She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Drs, Said

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.188, Penguin

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• Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Passion, Ifs, Knows

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• When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Seems

  Chris Bohjalian (2012). “The Sandcastle Girls: A Novel”, p.101, Vintage

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• Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

  Sam Neill

  Regret, Never Quit

  "Fictional character: Cliff Buxton". "The Dish", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

  Naomi Wolf

  Truth, Women Empowerment, Empowering Women

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• The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

  Rachel Field

  Sight, Bird, Experience

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sometimes, Splendid, Wells

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.58, Macmillan

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• If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening".

  Milan Kundera

  Light, Two, Compare

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• They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Helping, Enough

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1251, Simon and Schuster

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• It always surprised Valkyrie whenever she realized just how close the weird and the wonderful, and the fierce and the frightening, lived to the rest pf the non-magical, mortal world.

  Derek Landy

  World, Fierce, Wonderful

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• Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Waiting, Doe, Vengeance

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