Terrifying Quotes

460 Terrifying quotes by 389 unique authors

Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present… — Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can fulfill your dreams… — Seungri
To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society. — Cecil Taylor
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying… — Clive Barnes
Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no… — Ennio Flaiano
I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with… — Pablo Neruda
The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead.… — Stephen Covey
It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those… — Ravi Zacharias
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar,… — Carl Sagan
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

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