Top 100 Scarier Quotes
#1. I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.
Annie E. Clark
#2. An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I don't know what's scarier. Having someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping or breaking into someone else's room and finding out the guy is Mike Tyson.
Jay Leno
#3. Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.
Douglas Coupland
#4. Oh, Atticus," it says soft, and the softness is scarier than the rest in its sorrow. "I'd have done anything you asked. I'd have been your sea and sky.
Leah Bobet
#5. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
Russell Simmons
#6. The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.
Martha N. Beck
#7. Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
Tom Sizemore
#8. I'm actually kind of more adventurous. I like to go out on the floors and try to be incognito. Because it's more fun to be out there. So - when people do recognize you it's a little bit scarier.
Hayden Panettiere
#9. I always thought that for me the unassuming, friendly looking guy next door is certainly scarier as a monster than the monsterish looking predator, because he can lure people in, it's easier.
Franck Khalfoun
#10. Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.
Mark Harmon
#11. one dream had him chased by a giant pumpkin wielding knives, while a later dream had him chased by a giant knife wielding pumpkins. The first had been scarier, yet curiously it was the second that jerked him from his slumber.
Drew Hayes
#12. Why don't you tell me why you called me?
Don't you know?
I'm a therapist, nto a psychic.
That would make your job easier, no?
Scarier.
Alex Adams
#13. Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
Marlee Matlin
#14. I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'
Anna Chlumsky
#16. What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.
Ilsa J. Bick
#17. I do like the zombie movies quite a bit. I know there are purist zombie guys that don't like the running zombies, but I dig the infected thing. I think that's a scarier incorporation of an element into the genre.
Mark Pellegrino
#18. Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.
Kenneth Oppel
#19. Somehow this change was even scarier than all the people downstairs, because Jordan could have an identical twin; there could be kids who looked like his parents' childhood pictures.
The bunk beds were impossible.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#20. We now play a permanent game of I-am-crazier-and-scarier-than-you. And in that game, my mother is our secret weapon.
Susan Ee
#21. His green eyes sparkled. 'I think you're the first girl I've ever met who would rather slay a twelve foot snake than face one teeny, tiny spider.'
'Spiders are scarier,' she murmured, staring ahead.
K.D. Jones
#22. Like literally, the final moments of life come to mind when I begin to love someone. I think, Will this dude push my wheelchair? And even scarier, Would I be willing to push his?
Amy Schumer
#23. I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.
Kanye West
#24. Being a stunt girl is very much my comfort zone, so I had to remove the comfort zone to step fully into the slightly scarier zone. Also, just being perceived as an actor by the outside world, rather than as the stunt girl who does dialogue, has been a part of the challenge in front of me.
Zoe Bell
#25. Father, what are you to do now?"
Triton's sneer grew scarier. "She broke the law." turning away from the terrified faces of his daughters. "She must die.
Khalia Hades
#26. In some sense, we're all cavemen - we can't imagine anything more frightening than a ghost or a vampire. But the violation of the principle of causality - that's actually much scarier than a whole herd of ghosts ... or Rubinstein's monsters ... or is that Wallenstein?"
"Frankenstein.
Arkady Strugatsky
#27. He was far scarier than any ghost could be. He was real, and he was a monster.
Kayla Krantz
#28. Lucky Beauty. Her beast was a man in beast trappings. Far scarier is a beast in the trappings of a man.
Jane Nickerson
#29. In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
Billie Jean King
#30. There's nothing scarier than hearing someone you love cry, except imagining a world where that sound stops. Suddenly I can't breathe. Can't be here. There's nothing scarier than loving someone.
Emily Henry
#31. Take off your undead blinders and open your dismembered arms to progress. Fast zombies are scarier, plain and simple!
Greg McCabe
#32. I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.
Jesse Eisenberg
#33. Fear flickered in her eyes for a beat but she continued to stare up at me, right into my eyes, trying to be brave. I liked it. I liked it a lot. Yeah, I'm a sick fucker. And the only thing scarier than a sick fucker is a sick fucker with power.
D.D. Prince
#34. I think of something my mom used to say, about how as scary as it is to go after dreams, it's even scarier not to.
Jennifer Niven
#35. Actually, it's scary. Scarier than Freddy Kruger and Jason put together.
Meg Cabot
#36. The only thing scarier than zombies are Nazi zombies.
Scott M. Baker
#37. Breaking paradigms is scary. Not breaking them is even scarier. Life is scary, but mostly we scare ourselves.***
Art Hochberg
#38. Angles from their former lofty positions in the sky. Their absence made everything look different, like a fresh haircut exposing a band of untanned skin on a forehead. Even from deep inside the kitchen, Luke could tell the trees were missing because everything was brighter, more open. Scarier.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#39. The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.
Marjane Satrapi
#40. Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed.
Stephen King
#41. Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.
James Siegel
#43. Because this absolutely insane - the craziest thing I'd ever done. Worse than giving a one-star review, scarier than asking for an interview with an author I'd give my firstborn to eat lunch with, more stupid than kissing Daemon.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#45. 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
#46. I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene - bigger, higher, faster, scarier. I have a deal with God. If I'm breathing, that's a prayer for my sons' safety.
Linda Thompson
#47. I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.
Shane Smith
#48. Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
Andrew Pyper
#49. One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.
Tony Kushner
#50. The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.
Marc Spitz
#51. Uh, do you mind?
I glanced down and saw something far scarier than any demon. A guy. My age. And I was on top of him. Straddling his hips. Oh, jeez.
A&E Kirk
#52. If you have never seen a flight attendant praying, I hope you never do, because it is one the scariest things in the whole world. Scarier
Mindy Kaling
#53. Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.
Jason Fried
#55. I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.
Barbara De Angelis
#56. Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up.
Laird Barron
#57. Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be ... scarier.
Nalini Singh
#58. There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
Oscar Isaac
#59. Shockingly (to maybe only me), being in a relationship has done the opposite of limiting me. It's emboldened me to try something much scarier than I would have tried if I were alone. Maybe Rachel the Hasidic journalist was right: love frees you to be the person you actually are.
Kristin Newman
#60. The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.
Paul Watson
#61. Being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.
Simone Elkeles
#62. So, as was often the case, a big fear was beaten by a bigger fear. The best way to beat a monster is to find a scarier one.
Matt Haig
#63. As Grams treaded water, she tapped my forehead. 'What's in here, Poppy, is scarier than anything you'll encounter in the depths of the ocean. An imagination is a powerful thing.
Shelley Coriell
#64. The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.
Brian Skerry
#65. In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.
Brad Meltzer
#66. You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.
Nikita Gill
#67. If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.
Don Roff
#68. C'mon. We can turn it into a fun game - What's Scarier, The Basement Or The Attic?
Darcy Coates
#69. And they're right - what could be scarier, stupider, than
staying together? How else could you totally guarantee that you would always have reasons to be terrified?
Rob Sheffield
#70. The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.
Derek Landy
#71. Saying 'no' is not hard for me; it's scarier for me to say 'yes.' I'm actually more afraid of commitment than of saying 'no.'
Evangeline Lilly
#72. I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in
your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than
that?
Sidney Sheldon
#73. I'd rather face mythological creatures or prarnormal beings then to deal with my own demons. Nothing's scarier than being alone with your thoughts.Fuck the bump in the night BS, it's the silence that does it for me.
Amanda Rose
#74. He turned to face me and his eyes widened. "Are you crying?"
He sounded a little panicked, like the sight of a crying girl was scarier than anything that had happened over the past forty-eight hours.
Kathleen Peacock
#75. What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'
Christopher Denham
#76. All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.
Otto Penzler
#77. Trust me. The older you get, the scarier the world gets to be.
Sharon M. Draper
#78. Seeing David was a full-body experience. I felt heavy and light at the same time. He gives me butterflies, but they aren't butterflies. They're bigger and darker and scarier, like crows. They're dangerous. And did Bill ever give me butterflies?
Jessica Hawkins
#79. Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
Larry Kramer
#80. I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.
Jason Blum
#81. I wish I would die. I've thought those words many times. But it's a hard thing to say out loud. It's even scarier to feel you might mean it.
Jay Asher
#82. What can come? my grandson Sam asked, when he was very young, after his mother had warned him not to go into the woods after dark. What can come? This was a brilliant question. Can is scarier than will. What will come limits itself. What can come has no boundaries.
Abigail Thomas
#83. Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking.
Nora Roberts
#84. [David Tennant's] Doctor has such humanity, he seems to understand us and he's very warm, so he's a comforting Doctor to be with, and he enables us to be slightly scarier than we had been.
Russell T. Davies
#85. There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.
Joel Achenbach
#86. Ain't nothing scarier than someone with nothing.
J.D. Jordan
#87. Jason decided there was nothing in the world scarier than a gang of bat-wielding grannies.
Rick Riordan
#88. He's been looking at me like I've been drinking, and I can't blame him. My dress is ripped and my words slur. I'm not myself, I think, bu then I realize something even scarier: I am exactly myself.
Ally Carter
#89. But honestly ... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.
Robert Kirkman
#90. Thinking for yourself - that's scarier than any devil image ...
Marilyn Manson
#91. Is it scarier than Jocko's teddy bear being full of spiders waiting for bedtime so they can crawl in his ears when he sleeps and spin a web in his brain and turn him into a spider slave?
Dean Koontz
#92. there's nothing scarier than silent Italians; it's unnatural
Joe Novella
#93. Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.
Rob Sheffield
#94. You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort.
Matthew Lewis
#95. I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.
Sarah Dessen
#97. Remember: The fear of something is always scarier than the thing itself. Yes, there is pain and rejection. But the greatest failure is to never risk at all.
Jeff Goins
#98. Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Oren Peli
#99. Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.
Sarah Pinborough
#100. Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.
Zig Ziglar
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