Frightening Quotes

460 Frightening quotes by 395 unique authors

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right. — Michael Faraday
I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away- — Nikki Giovanni
Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime. — Brandon Sanderson
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run… — Henri Nouwen
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
Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their… — Keith Ablow
Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs — Melina Marchetta
Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and… — May Sarton
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard… — Harold Pinter
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that… — Werner Heisenberg
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name. — Cornelia Funke
Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the… — Becca Fitzpatrick
...all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can… — Katherine Hannigan
He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the ground, and you turned away… — Kristin Cashore
Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales. — Kate Morton
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place… — Libba Bray
And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that… — George Orwell
What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the… — Peter Straub
I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be… — Maggie O'Farrell
You know, dulceata, there are times when I truly believe you are the most frightening person I know. Thank you? — Karen Chance
I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It’s frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I… — Christine Feehan
My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by… — James Frey
After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told… — Anna Godbersen
It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous.… — N.K. Jemisin
Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got… — Rob Sheffield

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