The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“being in love can be frightening,and sometimes its easier to fight it than it is to face it.” — Cathie Linz Copy Share Image
Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
“Regalia Mason frightened her because she was very clever and almost kind sometimes, the way people who didn't care about you at… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
“I have one brother and I live with four hundred guys. Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear. — Penelope Leach Copy Share Image
It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well,… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
Kids love to be scared; we all do. But there's a difference between leaving them hanging out there, with their fears, and… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
“It gave them something to do and it took their mind off the way Yuxia was driving, which, had they paid attention… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“It's a strange thing when you spend so much time and energy fearing the worst will happen. Turns out that when it… — Lane Davis Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough. — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge. — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening. — Ian McLeod Copy Share Image
“It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
When the president of Iran Ahmadinejad says that our debt makes America not a great country, that's a frightening thing. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“Universe is frightening; we need a protector and a meticulous mind is the best protector; it is like a watchful dog which… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
“When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.” — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image