Scare Quotes

600 Scare quotes by 494 unique authors

I tend to scare myself. — Stephen King
It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so. — Elvis Costello
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared. — Vincent Price
To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even… — Frederick Buechner
It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details. — Melissa Bank
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a… — Jonathan Stroud
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You… — John Steinbeck
There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With his seat in the meat And his face in… — Shel Silverstein
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots… — Taylor Swift
Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it… — Jason Mraz
Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was… — Annie Dillard
Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future. — Chuck Palahniuk
Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he… — Christopher Paolini
That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But… — Chuck Palahniuk
I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why… — J D Salinger
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
I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil… — Jeaniene Frost
Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost… — Patricia Briggs
I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it… — Jim Butcher
The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either. — Libba Bray
Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely you've got a phobia or two. What scares you?"… — Cassandra Clare
She was my mother. I couldn't threaten to slap, stab, beat or even name call her. I tried to think of something to scare her… — Jeaniene Frost
No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom… — Laurie Halse Anderson

Who Wrote These Scare Quotes

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