Scarier Than Quotes

#1. Jason decided there was nothing in the world scarier than a gang of bat-wielding grannies.

Rick Riordan

#2. Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

Oren Peli

#3. 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

#4. You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort.

Matthew Lewis

#5. 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

#6. there's nothing scarier than silent Italians; it's unnatural

Joe Novella

#7. 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

#8. Thinking for yourself - that's scarier than any devil image ...

Marilyn Manson

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Ain't nothing scarier than someone with nothing.

J.D. Jordan

#12. There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

Joel Achenbach

#13. [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

#14. Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking.

Nora Roberts

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

Karen Salmansohn

#20. Before I can answer, the horde descends on him. It's scarier than a zombie apocalypse.
"Shit," he mutters.
"Oh my God, I love ketchup too!" a girl squeals at the bottle in his hand. "We have so much in common!

Miranda Kenneally

#21. Little girls with big ideas are much scarier than monsters.

Clementine Von Radics

#22. I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

Rashida Jones

#23. Don't be mad was the first thing he said. He really was terrified, as if the most frightening reaper on the planet was no scarier than a mouse, and yet put him in a tux and it was the Apocalypse.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#24. Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. There's nothing scarier than female unity.

Yoko Maki

#26. There were a few things scarier than a bipolar vampire off his meds, but to be honest, not that many.

Rachel Caine

#27. There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

Jon Stewart

#28. 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

#29. I was having nightmares because I'd discovered monsters that were real. Disease and the prospect of death were far scarier than any boogeyman.

Joelle Charbonneau

#30. I supposed images of an evil god who wanted to break free of his mythological prison and enslave the whole world
weren't any scarier than a guy wearing big red shoes,yellow plaid pants,and white face paint.Clowns had always creeped me out. They were so not funny.

Jennifer Estep

#31. Most of the time things against nature is scarier than the scariest things of nature

Munia Khan

#32. The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.

Mitch Albom

#33. When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

Max Brooks

#34. I've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?" The answer is you don't. But that doesn't mean you can't make something that is original and interesting.

Eli Roth

#35. Elias was so close that she could not even draw a breath before his lips were on hers. ... She could not deny that she wanted him with all her heart, in wanton ways and practical ways, day and night. Almost losing him was far scarier than the life-threatening situations she had faced on her own.

Evelyn Pryce

#36. 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

#37. Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

James Siegel

#38. 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

#39. The only thing scarier than zombies are Nazi zombies.

Scott M. Baker

#40. Actually, it's scary. Scarier than Freddy Kruger and Jason put together.

Meg Cabot

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. He was far scarier than any ghost could be. He was real, and he was a monster.

Kayla Krantz

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

Ilsa J. Bick

#50. Nice Kerrick was scarier than Mean Kerrick.

Maria V. Snyder

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Life is scarier than death.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

Brad Meltzer

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. Being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.

Simone Elkeles

#62. The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.

Paul Watson

#63. There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

Oscar Isaac

#64. Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up.

Laird Barron

#65. What's scarier than death? Not living.

Lindsay Eagar

#66. 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

#67. The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.

Marc Spitz

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. The light flickers on all of us and makes us look softer and more beautiful than we really are. But sometimes it makes us darker and scarier too, when the faces go into shadow and you can't see the eyes, only the eye sockets. Deep pools of blackness welling out of our heads. My

Margaret Atwood

#72. There is no scarier chasm of darkness than the human mind.

Roseanne Barr

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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