Quotes About Scary Things

#1. Scary things only go on in our minds if we let them. Monsters don't live under beds; in our minds is where they truly reside. Remember that.

Kathryn Perez

#2. She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Fred Rogers

#4. It a dude and a girl, and the house and wooo scary things happen and then they kill everything.

Ilona Andrews

#5. And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I'm going to go hide in the garage.'

Anne Lamott

#6. I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Jim Butcher

#7. The most complicated and scary things in life are really about something a lot more simple.

Lara Zielin

#8. But there's something about music, when you feel it deeply, when you understand it so well, the way Isabelle understands it, there is something about it that makes scary things seem to disappear. If only for a little while" -Giselle

Edwidge Danticat

#9. And speaking of scary things, I need to leave. My guides are fading even as we speak. (Talon)
I hate when you commune with the dead in front of me. (Kyrian)
Are you the asshole who sent the 'I See Dead People' T-shirt to me? (Talon)
That would be Wulf. (Kyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. Little known fact: When you get really scared and too many scary things happen at once, you can leave your body. I don't know if it's your soul or your consciousness or what, but you can literally float up in the air over your body and watch what it's doing.

Dinah Katt

#11. I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that.

Mitchell Baker

#12. I think zombies are the great analogy for all of our fears about all of the scary things that happen on our planet, and the potential for scariness on our planet. Being chased by anyone or anything can be scary. It is just a big, fun analogy.

Mireille Enos

#13. I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

Chris Van Allsburg

#14. I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with the many scary things that were going to start happening from now on. I wanted to try.

Banana Yoshimoto

#15. Life is full of scary things," he used to tell Kat. "The trick is not to let your fears get in the way of your living. Whatever else you do, Katherine, don't settle for a life half-lived.

C.S. Harris

#16. Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

George R R Martin

#17. But if we never did the scary things in life we'd lead awfully boring lives

Belle Aurora

#18. Sometimes, it's the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.

Cora Carmack

#19. Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.

Chris Pine

#20. One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

David Duchovny

#21. There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it's up to you to decide how you're going to approach the world ... how you're going to live in it, and what you're going to do.
- Jo Ellen Chapman

Deborah Wiles

#22. This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

Josh Hamilton

#23. I'm a character and relationship guy, and even with the 'Saw' films, it's special-effects people's jobs to create these scary things. It's not my job. My job is to bring some sense of humanity to the character, no matter how evil he may be. The script is going to take me there.

Tobin Bell

#24. You never heard me tell you that I want everything, not just the perfect pieces, not just the sparkling, charming snapshots of you. You never let me tell you that I want every piece of you, even the broken ones, even the dark places where scary things hide.

Amy Reed

#25. We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

Mattie Stepanek

#26. I'm really not afraid of spooky things. When I have to look really frightened, I concentrate on scary things like losing my kittens or something like that.

Heather O'Rourke

#27. There's an old goblin saying; there is nothing to fear but fear itself and scary things.

Tom Holt

#28. I like creating beauty out of scary things.

Grimes

#29. Scared people did scary things sometimes, even kids. Sam knew that from personal experience. Fear could be dangerous. Fear could get people hurt. And there was nothing but fear running crazy through the school.

Michael Grant

#30. Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

Anne McCaffrey

#31. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Jane Wiedlin

#32. Object-oriented programming had boldly promised "to model the world." Well, the world is a scary place where bad things happen for no apparent reason, and in this narrow sense I concede that OO does model the world.

Dave Fancher

#33. I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.

Scott Snyder

#34. Life is populated with scarecrows - all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Jerry Spinelli

#35. I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.

Katee Sackhoff

#36. Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

Dee Snider

#37. These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like ... like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.

Octavia E. Butler

#38. I've got a huge, huge position in mortgage-backed securities. I started accumulating them in 2009, when the market was really down and things were really scary.

Jeff Greene

#39. The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

Spike Jonze

#40. There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

Patrick Carman

#41. I keep a bedside journal. I am very affected by dream information. They might be scary to other people, but they're mine, so they don't feel scary. I'd wake up in a cold sweat if I didn't dream these things ...

Clive Barker

#42. Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.

Nick Nolte

#43. I confess to being a compulsive list maker- everything gets ordered into one of these categories: 1) Things I Must Do, 2) Things I Have To Do Or I'm A Dead Woman and 3) The Scary List.

Margaret Sherry

#44. The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.

Carrie Brownstein

#45. It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.

Chris Crutcher

#46. I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

David Archuleta

#47. I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.

Barry Manilow

#48. Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Bill Watterson

#49. Look, this is just the cemetery. It's got bylaws and things! It's not Transylvania! There's just dead people here! That doesn't make it scary, does it? Dead people are people who were living once! You wouldn't be so worked up if there were living people buried here, would you?

Terry Pratchett

#50. I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do.

Darren Lynn Bousman

#51. I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

Julia Sweeney

#52. I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

Iggy Azalea

#53. A girl fainted in front of me the other day. Obviously you don't get to see things like that unless you are The Beatles who have that power, and to see it that close was a bit scary ... It was cool to know I can make a girl faint!

Zayn Malik

#54. I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#55. I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something scary about it.

Mary Steenburgen

#56. Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

John Krasinski

#57. When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.

Larry Fessenden

#58. When something or someone is hyped and you're put on the forefront of a lot of things, people want to tear you down. That's kind of scary, especially when you're not really putting yourself out there.

Robert Pattinson

#59. I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.

Audre Lorde

#60. Layla. You've overcome so many obstacles in your short life already. If anyone can do this with grace and dignity, it's you. It'll be scary in a strange place with no one to turn to, but you've faced scarier things before, and you're still kickin' to tell the tale.

B.C. Burgess

#61. I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

Florence Welch

#62. The U.S. was the immigration country of choice even for alien jellyfish things that turned humans into scary monsters. It made you proud, really.

Gini Koch

#63. I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

Trent Reznor

#64. He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.

Victoria Schwab

#65. Jesse swallowed and looked around the field. Roe could see him struggling with his thoughts, trying to put them in a coherent order. "It takes me a long time to learn things," he told Roe finally. "When I learn 'em, I try to hold on real tight. It's kindy scary for me to try to unlearn 'em.

Pamela Morsi

#66. Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

David Levithan

#67. The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

Liam Hemsworth

#68. When bad things happen, I know you want to believe they are a joke, But sometimes life is scary and dark. That is why we must find the light.

Adventure Time

#69. Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time and pressure. The very thought of that is scary to some, but change is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. It is a simple fact of life.

EXO Books

#70. Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant judge you for it. If you live it long enough it becomes an addiction, like all things, too much of it and you will go insane but not enough of it will also send you there.n

Nikki Rowe

#71. One thing Pete had learned over the years as a participant in so many disparate cultures, and as a family historian, is that almost nothing that can be imagined is impossible, and that, in fact, most of those things, in one form or another, have occurred. Scary really.

Peter Heller

#72. It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year, and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.

Bryan White

#73. We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.

Gary Ross

#74. I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive ... almost scary.

Britney Spears

#75. Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.

Amy Klobuchar

#76. I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

Fred Rogers

#77. Whatever the regulations are, you can be as dark and disturbing as you want and we're going to go in that direction. The intention is to be as dark and scary as possible with the show. And that was our whole kind of plan going in, to make it scary. So we're going to explore all kinds of things.

Neil Marshall

#78. Things that scare me are the loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen. Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.

Oren Peli

#79. I alwyas want to try and create new looks and new things, but equally scary, hopefully. But a new kind of style.

Neil Marshall

#80. Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

Sandra Bernhard

#81. There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids.

Paul Reubens

#82. There is a weird truth to the idea that if you really don't care, things will generally go your way. If you're really invested and emotionally attached, things will get away from you or at least get chaotic and scary.

Marc Maron

#83. Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Ariana Grande

#84. Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

Arthur Smith

#85. I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

Ashton Kutcher

#86. People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

Mel Gibson

#87. Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.

John Waters

#88. People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.

Dan Wells

#89. There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

Boyd K. Packer

#90. Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

John Edgar Wideman

#91. Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!

C.K. Webb

#92. You think that you're a bad thing, but you're not. You protect the rest of us from bad things. You're badass and lethal and scary, and you're as far from weak as you can get. You're a protector, Gabe. My protector.

Courtney Cole

#93. Here is a list of terrible things,
The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings
The rabid bite of the dogs of war,
The voice of one who went before,
But most of all the mirror's gaze,
Which counts us out our numbered days.

Clive Barker

#94. The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#95. Besides, the angels lived in heaven forever and that was a long time, so I imagined things got boring up there after a while. It was scary to think about living forever with nothing to do

William Moyers

#96. There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

Jim Butcher

#97. I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn't understand. How could I tell someone - someone I was really talking to for the first time - everything I was thinking? I couldn't. It was too soon.

Jay Asher

#98. My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

Jill Lepore

#99. Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Paul Tournier

#100. It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.

Wim Wenders