Terrifying Quotes

460 Terrifying quotes by 389 unique authors

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know,… — Stephenie Meyer
We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first… — Barbara Ehrenreich
There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter… — Dean Koontz
And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face… — Robertson Davies
If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in… — Florence Welch
The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were… — Florence Welch
I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or… — Ransom Riggs
I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie… — Eli Roth
If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying. I am not the… — Forrest Griffin
I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those… — Ron Kovic
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. — S I Hayakawa
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin… — Rainer Maria Rilke
It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror. — Mignon McLaughlin
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can… — Bruce Catton
You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the… — Millicent Fenwick
I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing… — Mark McGrath
I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying. — Elizabeth Olsen
Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how… — Evan Peters
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and… — Cat Power
If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day,… — Rachael Taylor
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying. — Lea Thompson
Theater has always been terrifying to me. — Merritt Wever
In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of… — Dalai Lama
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying… — Lance Morrow

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