Quotes About Frightened

#1. Involuntarily, she stopped, jerked up her head, looked around her like a frightened woman. They weren't car horns: they were wind instruments

Stephen R. Donaldson

#2. I'm frightened all the time, yet I can't wish myself elsewhere.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Most of us have fear in one form or another; and where there is fear there is no intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

Christopher Gist

#5. We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

Danny Boyle

#6. I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly cousin, approval, so I did as I was told.

Sherman Alexie

#7. She wanted to be with him, and though the realization frightened her, it also set her heart racing with anticipation. When she was with Nick, she was a different woman. Some of his glitter fell onto her and made her feel beautiful and sparkly and more alive.

Kristin Hannah

#8. As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

James Bovard

#9. Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

Larry Norman

#10. Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is adharma and fear is disloyalty. All delusions emanate from this evil called fear.

Asaram

#11. Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.

Michael Mewshaw

#12. The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

Michel Foucault

#13. There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest
and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#15. She shuddered. Little frightened her as much as the unholy canines. But she did find it amusing that the souls of evil humans who had tortured animals and were sent to Sheoul-gra got to spend a lot of time in the pits with the beasts. She'd always loved the whole an-eye-for-an-eye thing.

Larissa Ione

#16. Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Kiki Smith

#17. Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Barbra Streisand

#18. If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. Down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet,
Crept like a frightened girl.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?

Richard Dawkins

#22. Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death.

Nancy Farmer

#23. The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened.

Neel Burton

#24. If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.

Steven Millhauser

#25. Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.

Elizabeth Goudge

#26. I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Denzel Washington

#27. Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened."
"You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us," Briar pointed out.
Niko glared at him. "Thank you so much," he retorted waspishly.

Tamora Pierce

#28. In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened.

Carl Sagan

#29. Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

Chogyam Trungpa

#30. I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.

Claire Danes

#31. People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.

Robert Thurman

#32. To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

Ashley Jensen

#33. Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

Neal Boortz

#34. It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

Teresa Of Avila

#35. Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Aimee Mullins

#36. If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

Mads Mikkelsen

#37. To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder ... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Norman Mailer

#38. These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Derek Jarman

#39. We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

Robert Hayden

#40. But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted.
"I know. Fear is only fear, though."
"And somehow you live without it."
"No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

Nicole Mones

#41. It's not the fault of ghosts that we are so frightened of them.

John Lanchester

#42. How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its
Beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its Being.
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too
Frightened

Hafez

#43. The doctor gave me several warnings: Never tell anyone unless necessary, because I might be ostracized. Call it 'seizure disorder,' not epilepsy, because fewer people would be frightened. Try to choose a profession as free from stress as possible.

Kurt Eichenwald

#44. I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

Bat For Lashes

#45. The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles and is frightened into nightmare by equidistance, by parallel planes which conceal nothing.

Don DeLillo

#46. Her jaw was firmly set, but her lips ... her full, perfect lips were slightly parted in an expression that matched the vulnerability in her eyes -frightened yet determined. His heart skippeed a beat, and he swallowed the lump in his throat.

Melanie Dickerson

#47. There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

Randa Haines

#48. It was this that frightened me
the sense that behind the grande amoureuse lay concealed a little bourgeoise who wanted security in love.

Anais Nin

#49. I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

David Frum

#50. Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

Anne Holm

#51. When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.

Jane Green

#52. Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.

Diane Keaton

#53. What did you - " He swallowed. His voice was raspy. "What did you do to him?"
"Sightseeing. Your turn."
He shivered. "No, that's all right.

Steven Gould

#54. Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#55. Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.

John Keats

#56. The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#57. I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Neil LaBute

#58. She tried to recall quarrels she'd had with men. Young men: lovers. But none had been anything like this, provoked by something so innocent and trivial. None had been so one-sided. None had left her feeling so frightened and helpless. So alone.

Anonymous

#59. When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."

Yoko Ono

#60. I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

Peter Ackroyd

#61. I'm a little frightened, perhaps. We always are, aren't we? When we have to open a door that's always been there...but we've never opened. [...] I mean frightened by the immensity of what lies beyond the door. A God of Love--infinite and eternal. How could I ever be worthy of that?

Tony Hendra

#62. There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

Charlotte Rampling

#63. Every scarred, scared, frightened part of me loves you.

Alisha Rai

#64. The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

James Buchan

#65. I think what you can't see is always what you should be frightened of.

Marianne Wiggins

#66. Ah, girls. All warm and soft and fragrant, upset when their skirts tantalized a wind, anxious when no one noticed the smooth lengths of their legs, those pink knees. Ah, girls! Outraged by your indifference, frightened by your passion.

Bobby Flores-Villasis

#67. Now he'll outstare the lighting. To be furious
Is to be frightened out of fear, and in that mood
The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still
A diminution in our captain's brain
Restores his heart. When valor preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

#68. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six; we were of that disposition

Nick Hornby

#69. For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

#70. One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

Robert McNamara

#71. I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.

Peter Hollingworth

#72. He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.

Ernest Hemingway,

#73. Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

Ruth Rendell

#74. A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.

John Edensor Littlewood

#75. The first moment I saw him, the night people clamored over each other to step out of his way, I was frightened. The guy with earrings and tattoos and an energy radiating danger. Now-inside and out-all I see is beauty.

Katie McGarry

#76. A pile of timber, remains of either a house or a ship, huddled like a frightened child, cradling a glint of metal in

Karen White

#77. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.

Lois Lowry

#78. If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.

Richelle Mead

#79. Such uncanny serenity actually frightened him, making him think that perhaps this was a surface impression left behind after any amount of unspeakable viciousness had been digested, or else settled down inside her as a kind of sediment.

Han Kang

#80. From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

Anna Dostoyevskaya

#81. Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.

Alma Katsu

#82. Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge ... the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel ... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.

Louis Farrakhan

#83. Upon patterned cushions that might have been honked, zig by zag, out of Ornette Coleman's horn, the odalisque exposed her flesh to a society that had grown frightened again of flesh.

Tom Robbins

#84. In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#85. That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump.

Stephen King

#86. Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

Lebbeus Woods

#87. Naysayers are frightened by their own power.

T.F. Hodge

#88. The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.

Jim Cymbala

#89. Then he began tearing at his clothes. She heard the linen rip and the buttons ping as they scattered over the floor. She thought she should be frightened by the frenzy, but instead she was fascinated that she could elicit such a reaction from a man. That he was fairly mad with wanting her.

Lorraine Heath

#90. Squirrelpaw's eyes widened, though she looked more impressed than frightened.

Erin Hunter

#91. She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#92. Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now."

Sogyal Rinpoche

#93. Last night I got up to pin a star under my top bunk. It stands for Matthew, who's a planet all to himself. In order to get to know that planet you have to do away with rules and prejudices and language, and throw yourself at it without being frightened of traveling through space.

Kochka

#94. I was frightened even by God. I could not believe in His love, only in His punishment. Faith. That, I felt, was the act of facing the tribunal of justice with one's head bowed to receive the scourge of God. I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.

Osamu Dazai

#95. I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Tennessee Williams

#96. A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good.

Dean Koontz

#97. When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

Nicholas Brendon

#98. Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Soren Kierkegaard

#99. your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.

Dante Alighieri

#100. A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

John Milton