Terrifying Quotes

460 quotes by 389 authors

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines. — Hallie Ephron
The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last. — Unknown Author
Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with her dragon-disguised-as-a-dog best… — Alex Bledsoe
Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life. — Lucy Fry
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history,… — Joseph Rotblat
The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive… — Stanley Kubrick
We trade away some, if not much, of our freedom for the feeling of safety that comes with sticking with what we know because the… — Philip K. Jason
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in… — John Ralston Saul
Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that… — Philip Yancey
Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent — Stanley Kubrick
The terrifying thing in my life is that I am just an actress. And I have to keep pushing it and getting approval, approval, approval… — Elaine Stritch
The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself. — Saul Alinsky
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money… — Federico Garcia Lorca
The amount of money one needs is terrifying... — Ludwig van Beethoven
Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying. — Christopher Isherwood
To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat. — Maurice Blanchot
And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the… — Penelope Lively
Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality. — Paul Washer
I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of… — M.F.K. Fisher

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