Fright Quotes
137 quotes by 131 authors
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What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you.
— Kim Harrison
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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone…
— William H. Gass
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The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.
— Shel Silverstein
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Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in…
— William Shakespeare
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Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own…
— Thomas Lynch
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I'm so disappointed, Ichigo, so very disappointed. Sadly, your sword exhibits only fear. When you counter, it's because you fear being killed. When you attack,…
— Tite Kubo
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It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield,…
— George Orwell
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I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor…
— Brennan Manning
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Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well...
— Philip Reeve
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He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.
— Craig Ferguson
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Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
— Garth Nix
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Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on…
— John Keats
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I loved her fright, which was against me into the air! and the diamond white of her forelock which seemed to smart with thoughts as…
— Frank O'Hara
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Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
— Carson McCullers
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Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself in the form…
— Katie MacAlister
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Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus!…
— Harper Lee
Who Wrote These Fright Quotes
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