Frightened Quotes

604 Frightened quotes by 512 unique authors

Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most. — Christina Dodd
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the… — Amy Tan
The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb,… — C.S. Lewis
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened… — Sharon Creech
So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash… — Anais Nin
In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that… — Toni Morrison
We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was… — Melina Marchetta
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. — Madonna Ciccone
Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. — Oscar Wilde
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen… — Bernhard Schlink
they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things — Charles Bukowski
but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else,… — Cornelia Funke
If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you… — Terry Brooks
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were… — John Twelve Hawks
Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the… — Roger Waters

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