Frightened Quotes
604 Frightened quotes by 512 unique authors
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I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today…
— Henry Rollins
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Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad…
— Jack Kerouac
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I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the…
— Joan Didion
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We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who…
— Dan Brown
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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
— Oscar Wilde
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I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked…
— Jon Ronson
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I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.
— Shirley Jackson
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Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against…
— Charles Bukowski
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A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I…
— Charles Bukowski
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It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be…
— Alice Hoffman
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I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is,…
— Richard P. Feynman
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He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and…
— Mary Balogh
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But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I…
— Bernard Cornwell
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But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.
— David Foenkinos
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...When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky…
— Julie Anne Peters
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Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time."…
— Cassandra Clare
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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can…
— Blaise Pascal
Who Wrote These Frightened Quotes
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