Terrifying Quotes

460 Terrifying quotes by 389 unique authors

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very… — Alan Moore
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. — Jim Morrison
All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was… — Kate Moss
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always… — Sean O'Casey
There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. — P.J. O'Rourke
It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle.… — Anne Parillaud
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. — Cesare Pavese
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. — Ronald Reagan
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important… — Keanu Reeves
Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point… — John C. Reilly
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have… — Joseph Rotblat
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason… — Eli Roth
The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing… — Jerry Seinfeld
You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. — Maurice Sendak
Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth. — Brooke Shields
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me. — Taylor Swift
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. — Wislawa Szymborska
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. — Thornton Wilder
I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying. — Chris Hardwick
You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you… — Libba Bray
Every angel is terrifying. — Rainer Maria Rilke
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision… — Gary Snyder
Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives… — John Irving
It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying.… — Neil Gaiman
Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as… — Banana Yoshimoto

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