Terrified Quotes

• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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• The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.

  Daina Chaviano

  Love, Kissing, First Kiss

  Daina Chaviano (2008). “The Island of Eternal Love”, p.172, Penguin

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• Brave is not saying I have no fear. It’s being terrified and still moving forward.

  Elisa Jimenez

  Moving, Brave, No Fear

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• We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ideas

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• I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Secret, Honest, Should

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• I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.

  Sergio Leone

  Thinking, People, Film

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

  Florence Welch

  Joy, Feelings, Battle

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• I've written about domestic violence in my book, Lola Rose and it's a great relief to know that terrified children like Jayni, my fictional heroine can use the special website and find support and comfort.

  Jacqueline Wilson

  Children, Book, Rose

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• Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

  Edmund Burke

  Enemy, Able, Kind

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

  Piers Anthony

  Courage, Fear, Coward

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Castle Roogna”, p.46, Del Rey

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• I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Three, Pieces

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified.

  Harlan Ellison

  Self Esteem, Typewriters, Deep Breathing

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Shatterday”, p.199, Open Road Media

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• Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

  C. S. Lewis

  Essentials, Done, Toes

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.

  Ted Dekker

  Love, Inspirational, Truth

  FaceBook post by Ted Dekker from Aug 04, 2015

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• I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Regret, Home, Two

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• I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile.

  Veronica Roth

  Tobias, Heartbeat, Feels

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• I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.

  Steig Larsson

  Want, Losing, Steady

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• He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.' I watched him turn away and gather the clothes from the ground. He thought me courageous? But I was terrified - always terrified. 'No,' I said flatly. 'I don't." He paused from stuffing the invaluable robe between two bales. 'Are you frightened now?' I nodded, shame flushing my skin. 'Is it going to stop you?' 'No.' 'That is the courage of a warrior.

  Alison Goodman

  Warrior, Two, Clothes

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• Being "fearless" isn't about being unafraid, it's about being TERRIFIED and still going for it.

  Taylor Swift

  Fearless, Going For It, Stills

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• Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him." "You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger." Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Cutting, Gun, Night

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Long, Overboard, Minutes

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• The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.

  Ilona Andrews

  Tired, Body, Blink

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• Gosh, what a gripping story. You must have been simply terrified. Meanwhile we went to Godric's Hollow and, let's think, what happened there, Harry? Oh yes, You-Know-Who's snake turned up, it nearly killed both of us, and then You-Know-Who himself arrived and missed us by about a second. Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Snakes, Perspective

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• If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.

  Lee Strobel

  Sick, Important, Dying

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

  Victoria Alexander

  Mind, Height, Plunge

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