Fright Quotes

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

— Victor Hugo

I was very nervous as a child and had stage fright.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

People die of fright and live of confidence.

— Henry David Thoreau

And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT

— Nicki Minaj

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

Stage fright is my worst problem.

— Andrea Bocelli

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

— Ednita Nazario

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

— Ben Jonson

“Dreaming is a dangerous business, but it never hurts anyone, it's their fright does.”

— Anonymous

You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.

— Brian Henson

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

— Henry Rollins

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

— Barry Humphries

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

— Walter Benjamin

The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.

— Meredith Hall

“Your fright is in your lies but your delight is in your ties, So better get together and fight for the right.”

— Aram Seriteratai

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

— Charles Hermite

The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first…

— Robert Greene

I know a lot of screen actors who think they left it too long to go back on stage and now they…

— Aimee Lou Wood

People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be…

— Ozzy Osbourne

The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night…

— William Blake

“Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.”

— Robin Hobb

If you're making a horror film, it's very important that you have lots of quiet, suspensey, don't-know-what's-happening stuff before you get the…

— Sam Neill

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

— Catherynne M. Valente

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of…

— Stevie Nicks

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my…

— Osamu Dazai

Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now…

— Gregg Allman

“ Day And Night ' Heat and/or cold, difficulty sleeping and/or remaining awake, frustration/s and/or/with dreams of giant fright/s, all close up...…

— Solomon Briggs

The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses…

— Sigmund Freud

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to…

— Mary Balogh

“There are many rivers to cross to our successful destinations. Never fear the crocodiles. They may look frightful, but they will not…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of…

— Anne Lamott

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were…

— Lawrence Wright

And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred…

— Patrick Stewart

Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right…

— Charles A. Beard

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of…

— Anonymous

“It was strange how in no time at all everybody went from fear to being excruciatingly bored, and the very women who…

— Thomas Berger

['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that…

— James Taylor

“At last there came a time when the driver went further afield than he had yet gone, and during his absence, the…

— Bram Stoker

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and…

— Agatha Christie

I'm so disappointed, Ichigo, so very disappointed. Sadly, your sword exhibits only fear. When you counter, it's because you fear being killed.…

— Tite Kubo