Terrified Quotes - Page 23

• I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with the world outside myself, nothing will be left but what I remember. My memories will be like a sandbar, cut off from the shore by the incoming tide. In time they will become submerged, inaccessible to me. The prospect terrified me. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Stars, Memories, Cutting

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Incomplete Knowledge, People

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• Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Block, Stress

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable.

  Rose McGowan

  Men, Found, Dangerous

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Crazy, Self Esteem, Thinking

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Running, Dream, Grandmother

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think a lot of Democrats I know, who will vote in the Democratic primary and vote for the Democratic nominee and later general, they go back and forth between two feelings. One is oh, my God, I`m terrified. Maybe this guy will be formidable in a general.

  Chris Hayes

  Thinking, Two, Guy

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's interesting, but it's useless information. It doesn't tell me anything about how the first and second armored brigades are going to operate.

  George Friedman

  Mother, Father, Interesting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I remember when I was doing Mermaids [1990], I was 16 and they gave me a B12 shot once. My parents weren't there, and when they did come, they freaked out. They were terrified, because of the Judy Garland stories. I know it's just vitamin B, but it did give you a boost.

  Winona Ryder

  Giving, Parent, Mermaid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.

  Harry Hay

  Littles, Facade, Sissy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.

  Rick Yancey

  Moving, Past, Waiting

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.296, Penguin

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• The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through movements. It's not our job to take power. You could argue that the most powerful political figure in April of 1968 was Martin Luther King. And we know Johnson was terrified of him. We have to accept that all of the true correctives to American democracy came through these movements that never achieved formal political power and yet frightened the political establishment enough to respond.

  Chris Hedges

  Kings, Jobs, Powerful

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.

  Ani DiFranco

  People, Feminist, Want

  "Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Intervirw with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.

  Georges Bataille

  Sacred, Demand, Violation

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• I was terrified that the wild boar might be attacking my father, and so I prayed to God - if he existed - to protect him and to direct the boar against my uncle instead, who believed in heaven, and therefore was more willing to die.

  Marcel Pagnol

  Uncles, Father, Heaven

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• I remember learning about the Holocaust when I was in kindergarten and being terrified. I think we even watched a graphic video about it in Jewish day school. Although I was quite young, I remember making these vows to myself such as, I'm never going to love my country so much that I can't leave in a moment's notice.

  Jill Soloway

  Country, School, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was on Batman with "Superheavy" or "Zero Year" where there was a lot of fun and bombast, but it was also personal. [In All-Star], I wanted to take that to its complete extreme, like the end of the Earth extreme, where it's over-the-top humorous, yet at the same time really deeply about what I think is of this particular moment in time, at least for me. The things I'm terrified of and the things I'm hopeful about. My life is the page.

  Scott Snyder

  Stars, Zero, Fun

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I was always the weirdo at school. When I became a model [at 16], I didn't tell anybody. I was terrified that the kids would rip me to pieces.

  Karen Elson

  Rip, School, Kids

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about zero to almost five percent. But the mortgage crisis and the burgeoning credit card crisis are causing Americans to become wary of irresponsible debt.

  Denis Hayes

  Zero, Quality, Cards

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Puberty was definitely difficult for me. I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. You read Judy Blume and you think, "This is kind of cool." But when it actually started happening to me, I was terrified.

  Mara Wilson

  Thinking, Firsts, Looking Forward

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

  Alfred Molina

  Jobs, Thinking, Bored

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• I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

  Ben Whishaw

  Couple, Desire, Hell

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

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• Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!

  Mike Nichols

  Phones, Civilization, Clothes

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• I meet Daniel Day-Lewis. He's just sitting in a chair on the set. Now, I had been told that Daniel Day-Lewis was kind of an intense person. And he's really not. He's really THE MOST INTENSE PERSON THAT HAS EVER EXISTED ON THE PLANET OF EARTH. He's not doing anything, he's just sitting in a chair, and I am terrified of him as if a jungle cat has wandered onto the set, like- WHOA! What do we do! Are we supposed to move around a lot or stay perfectly still?! What are the rules of Daniel Day-Lewis?!

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Moving, Cat, Sitting

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• America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

  Dirk Benedict

  Land, America, Faces

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