Top 100 Quotes About Frightened
#1. A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.
Patricia Briggs
#2. Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand Russell
#3. And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.
Elton John
#4. I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.
Miles Franklin
#5. Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.
Charlotte Gray
#6. I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.
Jane Rule
#7. To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing ...
Gertrude Stein
#8. There are no fates I cannot change, but this fate is one I cannot change without you. You are my strength, Rain. You are the courage I've always lacked."
He gave a choked laugh, and tears glittered in his eyes. "If I am your courage, then why does this idea of yours leave me so frightened?
C.L. Wilson
#9. Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.
Dustin Hoffman
#10. Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.
Mary Crow
#11. And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.
Roger Ebert
#12. If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who "did all that stuff to you" were just as frightened and scared as you are.
Louise L. Hay
#13. I was physically revolted by and secretly frightened of those round moronic eyes, the pancake face, and orangeworms hair.
Toni Morrison
#14. We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up.
Simon Pegg
#15. It's all very well to say you are waiting; so am I waiting.' 'Father's a cowardy custard.' 'So are you a cowardy custard.' 'I'm not frightened.' 'Neither am I frightened.' 'Well, then, take it.' 'Well, then, you take it.
J.M. Barrie
#16. Of course The Exorcist changed my entire life. I don't think there are very many people that will have the experience of sitting in this room, doing a job, and the next thing you know you've been on every television camera around the world, and people are they're frightened of you.
Linda Blair
#17. When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.
Josephine Baker
#18. And yet, every day, Brian gathers his sister's long hair into a beautiful plait, and just the sound of his voice is enough to calm her when she is uncomfortable and frightened. I think that tells me his real story.
Mary Ann Rivers
#19. [O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#20. We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.
Byron Katie
#21. There is a sense of oneness that from time to time I'm aware of in my life. Certainly not all the time, and there are times when I get frightened and when I get upset. But at the best of times, it's a personal oneness.
Richard Bach
#22. I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#23. I didn't think you would be able to find me.I was so frightened..."
He took hold of her hand, brought it to his lips. "I would have looked forever if I'd had to.
Kat Martin
#24. I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon
Nick Bantock
#25. I recognise your body in liana; your expression in the eyes of a frightened gazelle; the beauty of your face in that of the moon, your tresses in the plumage of peacocks... alas! Timid friend- no one object compares to you.
Kalidasa
#26. But reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared.
Philip K. Dick
#27. I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.
Laurie Graham
#28. In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself.
Charlie Wilson
#29. How do you feel Yossarian?"
"Fine. No, I'm very frightened."
"That's good," said Major Danby. "It proves you're still alive. It won't be fun."
Yossarian started out. "Yes it will.
Joseph Heller
#30. To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can't sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
Charles Bukowski
#31. He hated old women. They frightened him. There was a smell about them that gave him the willies. They were fierce and they had no price. They never gave a damn about making a scene. They got what they wanted. Louie's grandmother had been a tyrant. She had got whatever she wanted by being fierce.
John Steinbeck
#32. When you are frightened, don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage.
Grace Ogot
#33. You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.
Danny Boyle
#34. she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself.
Joan G. Robinson
#35. We're frightened of what makes us different.
Anne Rice
#36. Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
Franz Grillparzer
#37. This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One
Bertrand Russell
#38. Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#39. So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.
Gerald Scarfe
#40. If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
Colin Baker
#41. What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.
William H. Macy
#42. Ravenwood ran a hand through his wavy chestnut hair, upsetting the careful work of his valet.
Or not. Given the popularity of the "frightened owl" hairstyle today, Amelia couldn't fathom much effort being involved at all.
Erica Ridley
#43. I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.
Peter Steele
#44. Everyone is so frightened of change," I say before smiling sincerely at the broken man. "You remind me of my uncle.
Pierce Brown
#45. He doesn't appear much, does he - one frightened old fat man too weak to support his own flesh without the help of suspensors." It
Frank Herbert
#46. The sons of the blacksmith are not frightened at sparks.
Publilius Syrus
#47. It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.
Kristin Cashore
#48. I have only ever been truly frightened of boredom and loneliness," she says. It
Eowyn Ivey
#50. I have lived my life so frightened of pain it's been paralyzing. I hate pain, but I hate fear more, and I've eaten fear every day of my life because of the Forgetting.
Sharon Cameron
#51. It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
G.K. Chesterton
#52. We walked away from all that was warm and dear and stood frightened in cold rain where the guns fired, and in the end, we died in pain, the black stinking mud our shroud, embraced at last not by living arms, but by the bones of those who before us died ...
Charles Todd
#53. Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
Friedrich Engels
#54. After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#56. Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.
Adolf Hitler
#57. I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.
Juliet Marillier
#58. He was afraid of stepping up, of becoming everything he could be - not because the powers themselves frightened him. But because if he tried, then the failure was far, far worse. At
Brandon Sanderson
#59. I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
Lena Headey
#60. I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be more frightened of marriage than they are presently. (Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark
George R R Martin
#61. Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
Shia Labeouf
#62. I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don't have fear in that regard.
Jade Jagger
#63. Step forward again, hold the shield steady. Peer over the top. Fear is screaming somewhere deep. Ignore it. You can smell the shit now. Shit and blood, the stench of glory. The enemy is more frightened. Kill them. Keep the shields steady. Kill.
Bernard Cornwell
#64. In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.
James Hollis
#65. When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
Michael Ironside
#66. Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.
Anais Nin
#67. Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.
Maya Angelou
#68. I was angry and frightened and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn't drink.
Kim Richards
#69. I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion
Catrina Burgess
#70. She looked at Danny. His face was all eyes. His mouth was pressed into a frightened, bloodless slit.
Stephen King
#71. You are not a victim in this world unless you choose to be. And if that's your choice, then you'll never be more than a frightened girl lost in the woods." He
M.A. Larson
#72. As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
Lance Henriksen
#73. The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.
Donald Woods Winnicott
#74. Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#75. Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.
Melissa De La Cruz
#76. A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.
Myles Munroe
#77. She felt such an intense sensation of happiness it frightened her, because surely there was a price to pay for this sort of bliss.
Liane Moriarty
#78. Would any grown girl in Russia be frightened by a "room of horror"? Westerner's lives are too calm and peaceful, is makes them afraid of all sorts of nonsense ...
Sergei Lukyanenko
#79. I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
Fran Drescher
#80. When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
Barbara Kingsolver
#81. The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
Sherman Alexie
#82. I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#83. Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#84. This is how I want you: larger and smaller stronger and weaker taller and trembling more, more out of breath that I more burning more penetrating bolder bossier more yielding more frightened narrower and more relentless than you are more than I.
Helene Cixous
#85. God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#86. The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril ... It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.
Winston Churchill
#87. Oh I still cared about the sex, but it was very different now. The dominant needs in me had blossomed since finding Brynne, as if she was the catalyst. In fact, I knew she was. I wanted things with her that frightened me because I didn't want - no, couldn't bear to lose her over it.
Raine Miller
#88. Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.
Rhys Ifans
#89. A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions.
Alan J. Pakula
#90. She had seen those eyes dark with brooding anger and cold as ice, she'd seen his gaze veiled like a spiderweb and shattering like a gate under pressure. But she'd never seen them as they were now. Full of wondering joy and disbelief, and an almost frightened awe.
L.J.Smith
#91. You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.
Mick Farren
#92. How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
George MacDonald
#93. There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.
George C. Scott
#94. I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all ... a day ... an hour.
George R R Martin
#95. And so we remain immortal; we remain frightened; we remain anchored to what we can control. It all starts again; the wheel turns; we are the vampires; because there are no others; the new coven is formed.
Anne Rice
#96. I know that experts say you're more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn't make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.
Ellen DeGeneres
#97. There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.
Julian Fellowes
#98. I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.
Shirley Henderson
#99. When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.
Mitch Hedberg
#100. Little old ladies
speed away in their wheelchairs,
frightened meals on wheels.
Ryan Mecum
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