Terrifies Quotes

62 Terrifies quotes by 56 unique authors

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. — Ambrose Bierce
It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand. — Roger Caras
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of… — Raoul Vaneigem
I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine.… — Sheryl Crow
No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is… — Nicholas Brendon
Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. — Susannah York
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me. — Stephen Rea
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting… — Samuel Johnson
I close my eyes and it's so real and all at once I know just what I feel - And baby it's the kind of… — Amanda Marshall
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me. — Doug Stanhope
I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and… — Ingeborg Bachmann
I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time. — Sergio Leone
By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me. — Guru Arjan
I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get… — Mackenzie Crook
Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects. — Michael O'Donoghue
But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre;… — Rafe Esquith
It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The… — Samuel Johnson
The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most. — Eleanor Roosevelt
It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give… — Peter Mullan
Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps… — Chris Hedges
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion. — John Henry Newman
I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens
I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that. — Sara Paxton
If you keep thinking about putting on a conference or being a Hollywood screenwriter, and you find the idea terrifies but intrigues you, it's probably… — Derek Sivers

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