Frightening Quotes - Page 8

• My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.

  James Frey

  Dream, Sadness, Long

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.

  Anna Godbersen

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

  Rob Sheffield

  Numbers, Years, Together

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.151, Penguin

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• You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Moving, Sleep, Past

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• The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Solitude, Madness

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.156, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You know, dulceata, there are times when I truly believe you are the most frightening person I know. Thank you?

  Karen Chance

  Believe, Persons, Knows

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• I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It’s frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fingers. It’s as if you crawled into my head and my heart, even my body, and I can’t get you out.

  Christine Feehan

  Heart, Thinking, Body

  Christine Feehan (2011). “Dark Prince: Number 1 in series”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Gentleman, Wicked

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• And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

  George Orwell

  Cry, Moments, Hundred

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.

  Kristin Cashore

  Murder, Mercy, Harder

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

  Libba Bray

  School, Done, Acid

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.10, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Running, Coward, Way

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• Jasper chuckled, shaking his head. " You truly are one frightening little monster.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Monsters, Littles, Shaking

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

  Brock Clarke

  Loneliness, Lying, Might

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• Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

  Edith Wharton

  Motherhood, Self, Charity

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1841, Delphi Classics

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• I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

  Arsene Wenger

  Hopeful, Unbeaten, Stills

  "Wenger's Word Games Backfire". news.bbc.co.uk. May 04, 2003.

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• It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.

  Ginger Baker

  Mean, Play, Three

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• Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.

  Elaine Paige

  Radio, Littles, Noise

  "Show Girl". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2000.

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• Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we live in a country that a) legalized torture and b) where no one was ever held to account for it, and now the government's internal look at what happened is being suppressed by the CIA. That's a frightening landscape to be in.

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Government, Effort

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.

  Ray Comfort

  Possibility

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• Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

  Susan Griffin

  Dying, Becoming, Becoming Someone

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• Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.

  Anne Truitt

  Children, War, Caring

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• A famous anecdote concerning Cuvier involves the tale of his visitation from the devil—only it was not the devil but one of his students dressed up with horns on his head and shoes shaped like cloven hooves. This frightening apparition burst into Cuvier's bedroom when he was fast asleep and claimed:
  'Wake up thou man of catastrophes. I am the Devil. I have come to devour you!'
  Cuvier studied the apparition carefully and critically said,
  'I doubt whether you can. You have horns and hooves. You eat only plants.

  Georges Cuvier

  Men, Shoes, Doubt

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• Regardless of how hard, challenging, frightening, or difficult an experience may seem, everything is just as it needs to be in order for us to heal, grow, and learn.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Order, Challenges, Needs

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 03, 2014

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• I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains echoes of all that has been great about Straub's previous work and builds upon it. This Rashomon-like tale is as spooky and frightening as anything he has written, but it's also an intense and moving celebration of love. Out of the darkness comes, ultimately, a surprising and haunting sense of joy.

  Dan Chaon

  Teenager, Reading, Moving

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