Terrifying Quotes

460 Terrifying quotes by 389 unique authors

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms… — Stanley Kubrick
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. — Kurt Vonnegut
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke
He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is… — Susanna Clarke
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal… — Victor Hugo
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. — Daniel Defoe
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with… — Blaise Pascal
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and… — Hannah Arendt
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… — J. G. Ballard
Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'. — Shannon Hale
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are… — Barry Lopez
…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it… — Pema Chodron
I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has… — T.H. White
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing… — H P Lovecraft
Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old,… — Orson Scott Card
What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last… — David Wilkerson
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness. — Cornelia Funke
He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity. — Ilona Andrews
The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently… — Jim Butcher
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought. — James M. Cain
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention… — Julia Cameron
He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but… — Michael Ende
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter… — Madeleine L'Engle
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents… — Augusten Burroughs

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