Frightening Quotes · Page 4

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

— Julia Cameron

“The most frightening thing in the world is our own self.”

— Haruki Murakami

Death is only frightening from the near side.

— Jim Butcher

Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know.”

— Elyn R. Saks

I think tapping into one's power and one's potential is a very frightening thing.

— Viola Davis

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

— Colleen McCullough

And, by the way, I adore you… in frightening, dangerous ways.

— Stephenie Meyer

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

— Boris Johnson

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

— Barbra Streisand

I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that…

— Maureen Johnson

It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy,…

— Graham Linehan

“It's frightening, she thinks, how when the going gets rough you fall back on whatever awful think you grew up with.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

— Joan Wallach Scott

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

— Doris Day

“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”

— Kobo Abe

From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes…

— Rachel Cohn

Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women…

— Kim Gordon

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.…

— W. H. Auden

Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class…

— Bernie Sanders

Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men.…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his…

— Anne Desclos

“What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write,…

— Brenda Miller

“In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasn’t…

— Kate Chisman

This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will…

— Carson McCullers

Espionage is never a laughing matter. And in fact, this is not a political issue. I don't want to get this confused…

— Robby Mook

There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of…

— Bob Herbert

“As he wrote, the candle in the window kept flickering, and despite his desk lamp the flickering distracted him. He sat back…

— Alice Sebold

Being on my own was liberation, it was liberty, it was freedom, it was responsibility! It was the greatest thing in the…

— Rush Limbaugh

But in the beginning, when you're looking at this and you're thinking about it, the CDC gets brought up to this place…

— Kyra Zagorsky

Where are the young people today? Why are they allowing some of the things that are happening in their country? I am…

— Al Feldstein

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

— John Carpenter

“There's nothing more frightening than a day job.”

— Jay Leno

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

— Arsene Wenger

If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.

— Reese Witherspoon

The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!

— Ayana Mathis

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

— Bridget Moynahan

“...how strange and frightening and intoxicating life could be.”

— Magnus Flyte

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

— Carol Shields