Top 100 Scared To Death Quotes
#1. I'm always scared to death that I won't do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.
Hilary Swank
#2. It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.
Mireille Mathieu
#3. I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
Barry White
#4. In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it "the fear of the Lord," being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.
Anne Ortlund
#5. We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.
Rush Limbaugh
#6. SCARED TO DEATH In Arizona, a 1000-acre forest of junipers suddenly withered and died. Foresters are unable to explain it, but the Indians say the trees died of fear but they are not in agreement as to what caused the fright.
Malcolm Lowry
#7. I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
Loretta Young
#8. I froze all night. My back's killing me. I want home, and I'm scared to death. But I guess the view makes it all worth it."
"You're funny," Angel said
Jayde Scott
#9. Thaddeus knew again what it felt like to be living a life that was totally out of control. Which is something a cancer diagnosis can do in an eye blink. You don't know what it means, you're threatened and scared to death, and you lack all the information you'll need to try to pull yourself
John Ellsworth
#10. When I can stand up without scaring the shit out of a hospital full of people, will you maybe want to go get married or something? Because I'm scared to death I'm going to lose you if I don't make you legally mine.
Mercy Celeste
#11. I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.
Lefty Gomez
#12. Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death.
Alan Nunnelee
#13. Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
Harry Browne
#14. Even when my girls were little, we'd go down there, my grandmother tells us. And people'd be marching. The marching didn't just start yesterday. Police with those dogs, scared everybody near to death. Just once I let my girls march.
Jacqueline Woodson
#15. I'm not afraid to fail ... I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.
Mother Angelica
#16. People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything
Frida Kahlo
#17. I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.
Diet Eman
#18. She was scared to death. She was killed by her beliefs. By someone taking advantage of them.
Louise Penny
#19. I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
Roger Angell
#20. Look: Words did not frighten my father. They scared the shit out of me. I almost couldn't believe I'd worked up the guts to ask the question and not choke to death in the process. But words were the atoms in my father's universe, and he was their destroyer and their creator.
Andrew Smith
#21. My heart skipped a beat. 'I'm scared,' I admitted, needing to tell him. 'I'm scared to death of what I feel for you, of how you affect me. I feel like I'm falling.' 'Ah,' he breathed, 'don't you know, falling is the best part of flying.
Micalea Smeltzer
#22. So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.
Arthur Hailey
#23. Being Tranquil didn't sound so bad to him. He'd been terrified of being swallowed up by the darkness for so long it seemed like it would be a relief to get it over with. You were only scared of becoming nothing until you were nothing.
Just like dying
David Gaider
#24. Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar N. Bradley
#25. There are a few images in 'Exorcist 3' that scared me - people crawling on ceilings, etc. - but nothing beats the original. Even the book scared me to death.
Christine Elise
#26. I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
Carl Lewis
#27. Jesus, Lacey. You just scared me half to death."
I forced a laugh. "Only half? Damn.
Violet Cross
#28. I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!
Kam Williams
#29. Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.
Dee Remy
#30. People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
Taylor Caldwell
#31. In the distance, Amanda heard the sirens. Just a little bit longer. She didn't know what was wrong with her, but she was scared of dying before she had the chance to tell Ryker goodbye. In their capable hands, though, surely they could keep her alive long enough for him to return. They had to.
Rose Wynters
#32. Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#33. Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.
Rick Riordan
#34. Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There's nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you're going to be scared to death. There's something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.
Ashley Bell
#36. You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you.
William E. Peterson
#37. And she's courageous but scared to death But that's what courage means
Raine Maida
#38. I'm scared to death of you, but for a completely different reason.
Alexandra Bracken
#39. Dead man has nothin' to lose, nothin' to be feared of. Now I'm back among the living and scared to death about what happens next.
- Samuel Reed
Rodman Philbrick
#40. TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!
John Wayne
#41. Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#42. You Just scared me half to death," I said.
"You should be thrilled you're halfway there.
Rae Hachton
#43. I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game.
J. C. Snead
#44. After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
Lara Logan
#45. Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
Curt Schilling
#46. The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
Steven Spielberg
#47. I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.
Martin Amis
#48. People say death is scary, and I used to be scared. I used to fear death. But death doesn't scare me anymore. I welcome it.
Rebecca Shea
#49. If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.
Edna Ferber
#51. You're right about something else," he
said, his voice ragged. "I'm scared to death of you. Because I want you, when common sense and a lifetime of experience tells me I should kill you. I want you, and if I give up then you'll own me, and I'll have nothing left to fight with.
Anne Stuart
#52. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
#53. All I can say to people who hate their mothers for giving birth to them is "get the fuck out of your scaredy shells and kiss the world".
Jay Woodman
#54. Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
Floyd Patterson
#55. It's like I'd been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#56. It never ceases to amaze me when God wants to take someone to the next level in their life and they let fear of the unknown rob them of tremendous blessings. I think there are two common problems with Christians- They are scared to death of being truly free and of God's overwhelming love.
R. Alan Woods
#57. Megan, I love you,. I will always love you."
I swallowed hard.
"Scared?" He asked.
"Yeah. How about you?"
"Even more than the first time," He said. "I know what it feels like to lose you."
Then he bent his head and kissed me.
Elizabeth Chandler
#58. I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something.
Rod Steiger
#59. I love you like the woman I am now. Not the girl I was. I'm battered and bruised and I'm tougher, but I'm still here. I'm scared to death, but I'm more frightened of a life without you.
Amy Andrews
#60. You're the one who doesn't exist. You're doing this because you're scared to death, like the rest of us, that you don't matter. And you know what? You're right. You don't. It's not important. You're not important. Get used to it
Birdman
#61. How did people manage before there were flashlights?" Chen asked.
"With torches, wood wrapped with butter-soaked felt. They were as bright as these, and the wolves were scared to death of them. If one came at you, you could burn it's fur.
Jiang Rong
#62. I'm going to give the people what they want. Sensation, horror, shock. Send them out in the streets to tell their friends how wonderful it is to be scared to death.
Crane Wilbur
#63. If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed
Ann Aguirre
#64. Thomas stepped into the hall with Newt, scared to death of what his friend might say and how crazy it might sound. The seconds were ticking away. They walked a few feet from the door before Newt stopped and faced him,
James Dashner
#65. Confidence is being scared to death but getting the job done anyway.
Todd Stocker
#66. It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.
Travis Barker
#67. My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.
Arthur Potts Dawson
#68. I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
Cher
#69. The Sunday school trip: While us girls were alone, a nasty piece of work called Louise, aged about eleven, decided that it would be a 'fun' idea to hang someone over the cliff ... me!
Eskay Teel
#70. My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.
Tommy Rettig
#71. My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.
Brian Wilson
#72. Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.
Ahmed Yassin
#73. If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.
Colleen Houck
#74. I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid.
Owl City
#75. We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
Joel Salatin
#76. The ethereal beauty of the female semblance conceals that they really are dangerous like a great white shark in the most peaceful and deep water.
(quote from the exhibit at the Cultural Museum)
Czon
#77. I have always been afraid ... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.
Tite Kubo
#78. I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
Dolph Lundgren
#79. WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET SCARED HALF TO DEATH, TWICE? - T-SHIRT
Darynda Jones
#80. I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.
Frederick Lenz
#81. I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.
James Spader
#82. I was sure I fell in love with him again like the usual. He did things that made me go back to him. Once again, it scared me half to death.
Kia Amazona
#83. When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'
Mickey Rourke
#84. I'm scared to death to fly commercial ... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.
Brett Hull
#86. Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.
Vir Das
#87. Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Earl Wilson
#88. Don't be scared," said a voice behind me.
Those must certainly fall into the category of Famous Last Words, the sort that are the last thing you hear before your death. (Along with "it isn't loaded" and "he only wants to play.") Of course I was terrible scared.
Kerstin Gier
#89. Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add one to the count. I didn't feel scared. I didn't think to panic. The trail wasn't burning. I was raw, ripe for loving. I wasn't stopping.
Aspen Matis
#90. I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.
Nina Sankovitch
#91. The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.
Emily Dickinson
#92. I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me ... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.
Lauren Bacall
#93. Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.
Don Rickles
#94. I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.
Sam Snead
#95. Most people who'd had three brushes with death - one involving a ghoul - would be scared into a very cooperative state. Tammy appeared to be channeling her inner Paris Hilton instead.
Jeaniene Frost
#96. Paul turned her to face him. I see a breathtaking woman scared to death to see how beautiful she actually is, a woman refusing to live because she has spent her entire life feeling inadequate in her appearance, a woman who has nothing to be ashamed of.
Abby Niles
#97. March is such a maddening bundle of contradictions, brutal strength wrapped around a vulnerable core. The way he used to need me scared me to death - and now I'm afraid he'll never need me again.
I'm just never satisfied, am I?
Ann Aguirre
#98. I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away, arcing up and up and up, and if singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing ...
The rest you have to find out for yourself.
Lauren Oliver
#99. I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'
Barry White
#100. I didn't want to tell him the truth, that I was scared to death of the possibility of having a normal, regular person's life.
Jillianne Hamilton
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