Terrifying Quotes

Performing was terrifying.

— Bryan Ferry

“Anna, my strong, terrifying Anna.”

— Kendare Blake

For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.

— Yvonne Orji

The amount of money one needs is terrifying...

— Ludwig van Beethoven

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.

— Charlie Day

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

— Tatiana Maslany

It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.

— Faye Marsay

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

— George Michael

“Life is horrible and unfair and terrifying. But those are not reasons to stop living.”

— Christi Caldwell

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

— Hallie Ephron

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

— Young-Ha Kim

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

— David Friedman

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

— Audrey Flack

“You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.”

— Amit Kalantri

Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine,

— David Suzuki

When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.

— Jonathan Nolan

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find…

— Daniel Defoe

But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if…

— Brené Brown

“He says finally, “It’s terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches into a…

— Blake Crouch

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.

— Stephenie Meyer

“It was both exhilarating and terrifying to discover that someone needed you as much as you needed them.”

— Fiona Neill

The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father…

— Rick Riordan

It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

— Gavin Rossdale

For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

Love is a really scary thing and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in…

— Ariana Grande

To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to…

— Barry Manilow

You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom…

— Emma Roberts

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for…

— Eli Roth

“The curse is broken. The king is returned." He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent. I don't care. I run into…

— Holly Black

Every time you start a new job, you're starting from the beginning again and it's terrifying. And you feel like you're going…

— Emily Mortimer

There is no public space for women; the whole world is a prison where you have to be constantly aware at all…

— Jessica Valenti

It is terrifying,” said Adrian. “And weird, for lack of a better word. And part of you knows… well, part of you…

— Richelle Mead

“Pritkin, it’s a hotel room, not a death trap!” A glance over his shoulder showed him impatient blue eyes under a fall…

— Karen Chance

“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of…

— Judith Lewis Herman

I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it…

— Anonymous

The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling…

— Jerry Stahl

“The stories themselves aren't what moves him now...What moves him are the shadowy people behind the stories, the workers weary from their…

— Lauren Groff

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“If she were their mother she'd teach them these things are nothing, the clothes and toys and furniture. These things fool people…

— Josephine Humphreys

“If anything is terrifying, if there is a reality that surpasses dream, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to…

— Victor Hugo