“...the people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The strategy of fear is to convince us that we are underestimating it so that we will fall prey to the paralysis… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“His fear came from needing her. It was the danger to her life that frightened him.” — Anne Osterlund Copy Share Image
In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals. — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Would any grown girl in Russia be frightened by a "room of horror"? Westerner's lives are too calm and peaceful, is makes… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I think people are very brave and often are a lot more frightened than they're allowed to admit. Life is much harder… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“It seemed so natural, to talk to him about the odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Mona wasn't listening. Of course a bet was a bet, she thought. And there was her reputation to consider. Not to mention… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Competing in an Olympics didn't scare her now. The thought of stepping up into the full roar of the crowd, in London,… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In her weakest moments she probably saw her sister’s family dead in a ditch somewhere, inside a car that had never been… — Tim Weaver Copy Share Image
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to… — Haley Joel Osment Copy Share Image
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. — Horace Copy Share Image
“once a weak person gets really frightened, they get quite savage with terror and they’ve no self-control at all.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that… — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but you will be soon,' but you know you won't.” — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“like frightened herbivores, New York cabbies all hide at the first hint of nightfall—” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
“Look not to the past where you were embarrassed, for the most important thing is that those moments are gone, and you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of… — Joan G. Robinson Copy Share Image
Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility. — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
“More often than not, the thing we fear is less than half the size of the fear it creates.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, to have fun, you've got to be willing to take a chance - and even be frightened!” — Mani S. Sivasubramanian Copy Share Image
When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Without our natural soundscape, we are making ourselves tired, stressed, and frightened all at the same time. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
