Frightens Quotes

98 Frightens quotes by 86 unique authors

The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they… — Jeanette Winterson
I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it. — Gregory David Roberts
The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast… — J. Michael Straczynski
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?… — Libba Bray
Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes… — Douglas Coupland
a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a… — Aidan Chambers
Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred… — Haruki Murakami
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. — Guy de Maupassant
Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to… — Georges Bernanos
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
It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us. — Laurell K. Hamilton
The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what kind of lesson… — Sloane Crosley
I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens… — Paulo Coelho
But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows. — Megan Hart
The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not. — Joseph Sobran
So you’ll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you.” “Well…yes. — Rachel Caine
That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know… — Haruki Murakami
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel
Reality in strong doses frightens. — Victor Hugo
I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room… — Veronica Roth
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths. — Guillaume Musso
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin. — Anne Perry
The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror. — Jessica Sorensen
The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how… — Ariel Gore

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