Frightening Quotes

460 Frightening quotes by 395 unique authors

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin
It's a frightening world to be alone in. — Jhonen Vasquez
But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the… — Jean Rhys
It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known. — Barbara Kingsolver
I couldn't recall the last time I'd seen that much of him on display. It was wonderful and frightening on the same time. I then… — Richelle Mead
Thereâ€™s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right. — Michael Faraday
Iâ€™ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...Iâ€™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 beautyâ€”by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.â€”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, â€˜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

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