Art Quote by Mary Shelley

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.”

— Winston Churchill

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

— Frank Herbert

“There is a strange sensation often experienced in the presence of an audience. It may proceed from the gaze of the many eyes that…

— William Pittenger

“From his angle, the curtain seems to form itself into a shrouded, wavering figure, indescribably terrifying in its very indistinctness. Something waiting, hovering on…

— Christopher Isherwood

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

— August Strindberg

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

— Anonymous

“He mostly preached in the evening, when the college church was already shrouded in shadow. And he chose subjects that filled the imagination with…

— Georges Rodenbach

This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.

— Plato