Frightening Quotes

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. (Doris Day)
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. View quote
M. C. Escher
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. View quote
Robert N. Bellah
Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. View quote
Ann Coulter
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it. View quote
L.J. Smith
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. View quote
May Sarton
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. View quote
James Baldwin
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately. View quote
John Steinbeck
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do. (Simone de Beauvoir)
...to Americans English manners are far more frightening than none at all... View quote
Randall Jarrell
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. View quote
Laurens van der Post
Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive. View quote
Lorna Luft
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while. View quote
Candice Bergen
I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We're capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening. View quote
Alicia Keys
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. View quote
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process. View quote
John Danforth
Death is only frightening from the near side. (Jim Butcher)
Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. View quote
Hugh Grant
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world. View quote
Susie Bright