Frightening Quotes - page 2

Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful. (Margaret Atwood)
Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening. View quote
Gertrude Stein
When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it. View quote
David Lynch
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself. View quote
Timothy Leary
Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much. View quote
Elaine Paige
It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy, it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all-but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. View quote
N. K. Jemisin
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when the knowledge is so damn frightening. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go! View quote
Dr. Seuss
Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores. View quote
Martin Amis
Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other. View quote
Fritz Leiber
Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex. (Laura Riding)
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California. View quote
John Steinbeck
It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning. View quote
Mircea Eliade
And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful - how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar. View quote
Mary Oliver
I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought. View quote
Arsène Wenger
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. View quote
Greta Garbo
I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way. View quote
Steven Spielberg
So I'm into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man. View quote
Mindy Kaling
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality. (Susanna Clarke)
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying. View quote
Jane Goldman
But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening. View quote
Jean Rhys
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently. View quote
George Johnson