Expectations Quote by Alice Hegan Rice

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters…

— Robert Hayden

The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.

— Félix J. Palma

“[P]eople think that in order for something to be frightening, it has to be dark, musty, and full of cobwebs and secrets. That's a…

— Suzanne Palmieri

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

— Tracy Kidder

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

— Richard Cowper

To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

— Cecil Taylor

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

— Laurens van der Post

I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality.

— Ellen Page

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

— Kobo Abe

I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the…

— Guillermo del Toro

We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick…

— Libba Bray

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

— Mark Z. Danielewski