Terrifying Quotes

460 Terrifying quotes by 389 unique authors

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy. — Nathaniel Branden
She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying. — Erica Jong
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being.… — Thomas Berry
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best… — Michael Hastings
A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both… — Hannah Kent
Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it… — Carlos Castaneda
I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope. — Martha Graham
If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more… — Charles Baudelaire
You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or… — Eve Ensler
Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying. — Jim Gaffigan
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of… — Carl Jung
It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from… — Tim Winton
To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying. — Paul Washer
When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys… — Ken Wilber
When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is… — Ravi Zacharias
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of… — Chris Hedges
What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare — Iggy Pop
I am totally for gun control in the U.S. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this… — Liam Neeson
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive,… — John Oliver
It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I… — Joely Richardson
The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had… — Jane Fonda
Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in… — Eugene Schwartz
The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we… — Richard Rohr
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in… — Emily Greene Balch

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