Terrified Quotes
463 Terrified quotes by 386 unique authors
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Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
— Aberjhani
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It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?
— Augusten Burroughs
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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair.…
— H.G. Wells
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Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear…
— Christopher Hitchens
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They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear…
— Lauren Oliver
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Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
— Randy Alcorn
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
— Erica Jong
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I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make…
— Mary Balogh
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I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you…
— Harlan Ellison
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Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we…
— C.S. Lewis
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There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things.…
— Ted Dekker
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I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and…
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile.
— Veronica Roth
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I don't know if I want a steady relationship, but I'm terrified of losing you.
— Steig Larsson
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He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.' I watched him turn away and gather the clothes from the ground. He thought me courageous?…
— Alison Goodman
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Being "fearless" isn't about being unafraid, it's about being TERRIFIED and still going for it.
— Taylor Swift
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Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said,…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is…
— R C Sproul
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Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull…
— Jodi Picoult
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But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.
— Paullina Simons
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She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d…
— Dennis Lehane
Who Wrote These Terrified Quotes
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