Terrified Quotes - Page 21

• The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Choices, Decision, Might

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.345, A&C Black

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• He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Parent, One Day, Papa

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “The Lives of Christopher Chant (The Chrestomanci Series, Book 4)”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Courage, Bravery, Taught

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.120, Penguin

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• He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Lines, Saws

  "Les Miserables".

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• Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

  Ben Stein

  Home, Years, May

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• I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Wife

  Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.115, Macmillan

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• You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Running, Baby, Texas

  "Fictional character: Paul 'Fred' Varjak". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", 1961.

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• Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us, a gloomy line of snuffed-out candles; the nearest are smoking still, cold, melted, and bent. I don’t want to look at them: their shape saddens me, and it saddens me to remember their original light. I look ahead at my lighted candles. I don’t want to turn for fear of seeing, terrified, how quickly that dark line gets longer, how quickly the snuffed-out candles proliferate.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.

  Rosie Thomas

  Fear, Selfish, Rocks

  "Iris and Ruby: A Novel".

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• I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.

  Mary Balogh

  Mind, Able, Impossible

  Mary Balogh (2007). “The Devil's Web”, p.133, Dell

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• Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

  Erica Jong

  Cheerful, Envied, My Friends

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.233, Open Road Media

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• Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

  Randy Alcorn

  Accustomed

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “Ollie Chandler Collection: Three Novels: Deadline, Dominion, Deception”, p.31, Multnomah

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• Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Kings, Fall, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Hero of Ages: Mistborn Book Three”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hurt, Wall, Pain

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• Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fear, Dying, Waste

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• By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

  H. G. Wells

  Despair, Limits, Miserable

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.60, H. G. Wells

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• It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

  Augusten Burroughs

  What If, Body, Stills

  Augusten Burroughs (2008). “A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father”, p.35, Macmillan

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• In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

  Aberjhani

  Flower, Eye, Garden

  Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.78, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heartbreak, I Hate You, Want

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• I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

  Helen Mirren

  Ocean, Water, Scare

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• The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.

  Joanna Hoffman

  Dreamer, May, Good Advice

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• The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution-the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace-quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the the soul of man.

  Norman Bethune

  Artist, Men, Creative

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• At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Grief, Past, Profound

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.111, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

  John Steakley

  Reading, Tea Leaves, Astrology

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• When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.258, Hachette UK

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