Top 82 Frightens Me Quotes
#1. It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.
Jerome Lawrence
#2. It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror.
Jessica Sorensen
#3. I MUST go to what desperately frightens me
the chance of failure.
Sally Field
#4. It frightens me about being alone with Cal, at least in daylight. But when night falls, there's no one I'd rather see.
Victoria Aveyard
#5. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
David Markson
#6. Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.
Norman Lock
#7. Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.
John Cleese
#8. The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
Ronald Reagan
#9. It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
Patrick Stewart
#10. Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
Jim Elliot
#11. I've never killed men with so little regard. And it frightens me how easy I find it in war. There is no ambiguity here, no violation of moral creed. These people are warColors. They kill me or I kill them. It's simpler than the Passage.
Pierce Brown
#12. I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.
George Gissing
#13. No, the hurts of the mind were too strange, too invisible, too magical to hope for the same kind of tolerance and help from even the best of people. It frightens me, thought DeAnne. Why should I expect others to be better than I am?
Orson Scott Card
#14. I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.
Patti Davis
#15. I love you, Brooke. The only thing that frightens me more than the idea of losing you is never having you at all.
Harper Dallas
#16. There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.
Elaine Stritch
#17. There's a reverence in the way he kisses me that frightens me, because it's the most wonderful thing I've ever felt.
Katja Millay
#18. There's very little that frightens me more than the Grim Reaper when he's horny.
Larissa Ione
#19. I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
Harlan Coben
#20. I'm a moth to his flame and it frightens me how willingly I'd burn my wings off for him. Destroy the world. Follow him to Hell. It's scary to feel like you can't breathe without someone.
Karen Marie Moning
#21. Heat and dryness frightens me,
like skeletal shapes of war,
two of them look doomed
and challenge the peace blazing.
J.M.K. Walkow
#22. It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me is that I've not become lonely now, but have looked inside and seen that I was, already. How long has that been going on?
China Mieville
#23. I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
Jules Verne
#24. That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.
Haruki Murakami
#25. It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
Jerome Cady
#26. Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.
Bobby Orr
#27. The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
May Sarton
#28. The only reaction that frightens me is people not laughing. It's extraordinary to me when you get a laugh. That you can go in front of a bunch of people you never met before, you can say some stuff and they all laugh in unison - that's amazing. It's a miracle.
Chris Rock
#29. Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
Elie Wiesel
#31. There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.
Rex Stout
#33. I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.
Philippe Petit
#34. Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.
Harvey Pekar
#35. It frightens me how much I like it," Celia finishes, turning her face back to his. "How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let go. To let you keep me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself.
Erin Morgenstern
#36. It frightens me to be in a homogeneous environment. Plus, homogenity is boring. What can you learn from that kind of environment? Friction is interesting.
Jennifer Topper
#37. A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.
Franz Grillparzer
#38. The more I think about it, the more it frightens me."
"So why are you getting involved?"
He shut his eyes. "So I can look at myself in the mirror again. And know that I did my best.
C.S. Friedman
#40. When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.
Jackie Chan
#41. I hug him tightly. "I can't imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me." "Me, too," he breathes. "My life would be empty without you. I love you so much.
E.L. James
#42. What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.
John Carpenter
#43. Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.
Judith Martin
#44. I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.
Andy Goldsworthy
#45. The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.
Chloe Sevigny
#46. Uncertainty does not scare me," Saylor said. "What frightens me more than anything is continuing to endure the same pain over and over, the hopeless repetition. Being caught in an endless cycle, the ironclad grip of fate.
L. E. Henderson
#47. I've never killed anyone before. What frightens me isn't that I'm killing someone. What frightens me is how easy it is.
Susan Ee
#48. It frightens me that when I'm writing I seem to have some awful second sight, or something like it, an intuition of some kind; a kind of intelligence is at work that is much too painful to use in ordinary life; one couldn't live at all if one used it for living.
Doris Lessing
#49. Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?
D.H. Lawrence
#50. Quiet anger frightens me. The drunks, the idiots, the ones that rage easily - them I can handle. I know when to step out of their way. It's the ones that hold the anger in, the men that think about what they do and how they do it, that scare me. They're the ones that cause damage.
Katie McGarry
#51. Sometimes I get a funny feeling inside me that I shan't be here very long,
and I'm not talking in terms of things like success.
It frightens me sometimes
Marc Bolan
#52. So much of "normal, civilized" life is bull that you can't imagine ... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.
James Clavell
#53. Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
Billie Whitelaw
#54. It frightens me," Shallan said, "because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.
Brandon Sanderson
#55. If he wears a tag, doesn't that make him harmless? It sounds rather sweet, like a kitten with a bell around its neck. A dissolute character without a tag is what frightens me.
Osamu Dazai
#56. It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be ...
Bob Dylan
#57. The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
Guy De Maupassant
#58. The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#59. The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.
Fred Savage
#60. It is the silence that frightens me so in the evenings and at night ... I can't tell you how oppressive it is never to be able to go outdoors, also I am very afraid that we will be discovered and be shot.
Anne Frank
#61. To be perfectly honest, I like pressure. It's something I find exciting. And I am the kind of personality that gets very bored very easily. The work I try and involve myself with is ordinarily determined by how much it sort of frightens me.
Taron Egerton
#62. When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential campaign, Eszterhas wrote "Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression."
David Shuster
#63. I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.
Lou Doillon
#64. I have wanted to have a baby since I was a teenager, but it frightens me. It is much easier to have a dog.
Carmen Electra
#65. I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.
Paulo Coelho
#66. It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...
Gwendolyn Brooks
#67. At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge.
Diane Keaton
#68. We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all knowledge becomes anxiety.
Floriano Martins
#69. I'm completely alone in the world; it frightens me to be so empty and lost.
Henrik Ibsen
#70. Just to be in Boston, in Cambridge, on a Monday night was very horrifying to me. It frightens me . . . All the stores closing up by 5 or 6, coffeehouses being open maybe until 11, just the sense that the world shuts down and you're left with yourself.
Ann Douglas
#71. Cruelty, I understand. But kindness frightens me, for my defenses are weak against it. ~Zahra
Jessica Khoury
#72. I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.
Gregory David Roberts
#73. The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me
Oscar Wilde
#74. The only thing that frightens me, Chloe, is that you keep lessening the six degrees of separation in our lives.
Addison Moore
#75. You tell me to trust you, but I don't know that I can. I don't know anything about you, Adam. I have no idea what kind of man you are. And that . . . that frightens me." "I frighten you?
Sarah M. Eden
#76. I am too sick to lay down
the sidewalks frighten me
the whole damned city frightens me,
what I will become
what I have become
frightens me.
Charles Bukowski
#77. It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.
William Shatner
#78. I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!
Giacomo Puccini
#79. I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.
Adele
#80. The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.
Patrick Leahy
#81. Her courage frightens and amazes me. It make me hopeful for her. Is that what you call love? Is that what you call hope?
Rene Denfeld
#82. You're growing old together," she said to me. "You and what frightens you.
Vivian Gornick
