Terrifying Quotes

460 Terrifying quotes by 389 unique authors

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we… — Megan Hart
We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by… — Libba Bray
The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?" Yes." My Imagination." I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small… — Stephen King
Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song "Stayin' Alive." A terrifying image flashed through my mind of Apollo in bell-bottom… — Rick Riordan
I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me. — Craig Ferguson
Friends don't menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay? — Sarah Rees Brennan
Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf) Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I’m even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of… — Daniel Defoe
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. — Joseph Conrad
She cleans a toilet inside and out under a minute. More like terrifying — Becca Fitzpatrick
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible… — Stephen Fry
And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting… — Stephen King
I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but… — Stephenie Meyer
People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized… — James A. Baldwin
Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the… — Becca Fitzpatrick
That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would… — Charles Bukowski
Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him… — Melissa de la Cruz
The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a… — Rick Riordan
Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask… — John Green
I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine… — Sarah Rees Brennan
I dreamed of being a part of the stories—even terrifying one, even horror stories—because at least the girls in stories were alive before they died. — Francesca Lia Block
Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility. — Stephenie Meyer
Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal. — Young-Ha Kim
Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying. — Tom Butler-Bowdon
Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying — David Sheff

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