Frightened Quotes

People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.

It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror.

We should not be frightened by appearances.

Actors are frightened little children.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.

I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.

Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most.

I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.

You know, it's an interesting think when you consider... The Earth people, who can think, are so frightened by those who cannot: the dead.

Bullies are just frightened people.

Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.

I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.

If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened.

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

You will recover [from a broken heart] by beginning to identify the difference between frightened and loving parts of your personality.

The warrior must continue to make decisions in the face of extreme circumstances. He cannot afford to get angry or frightened.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

I truly believe that a woman who knows herself, and who thus knows her true value, can never be frightened into being co-opted.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them.

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.

I don't drive. No. Cars terrify me. I am really frightened of cars.

But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.