28 Quotes About Frightening

It’s healthy to be concerned, but when your fear becomes overwhelming, it can take away your motivation. These frightening quotes can help you overcome that fear and keep moving forward toward your goals.

Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what...
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Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our...
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Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, we’re going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that line or the other. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Rise of Science DenialismThe problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump was allowed to rise to the level of a serious presidential candidate in 2016) have descended to such levels of ignorance that science itself is dismissed by leaders, political and religious as ‘an agenda’, and frightening numbers of people cling to ignorance and superstition because it suits their conservative anti-human rights views and objectives. Christina Engela
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I have spent a great deal of my life struggling to keep myself in control. To know myself inside and out, everything In perfect order. I lose that when I'm with you. That frightens me, and it frightens me how much I like it. How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let it go. To let you save me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself. Erin Morgenstern
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Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears. Criss Jami
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Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the moon. But it is frightening and essentially “unlike” man as he knows himself familiarly, so we spend all our days living at the other antipodes of ourself. Patricia Highsmith
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He had a hungry look in his eyes and it frightened her. Kassandra Cross
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Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape. Dave Eggers
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There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. But most of all, there is very nearly nothing in the dark; except for little bits here and there, often associated with the light, this infinite receptacle is empty. This picture is strangely frightening. It should be familiar. It is our universe. Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are, as sand, as dust, or less than dust, in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. Nothing! We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s Pensées and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between wo. Carl Sagan
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At least I rescued your poor hot dog. R.L. Stine
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How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things. Colleen McCullough
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In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasn’t moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make sure it was real. The TV fuzzed grey and white and black and I had a lump in my throat that I couldn’t swallow away. “Rory” I whispered. Clawing out gently beneath the duvet cover, reaching for his hand. But I couldn’t find it. And he didn’t answer. . Kate Chisman
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In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild. Shaun Hick
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Circus can't just be beautiful. It has to be weird. It has to be frightening. Elizabeth Schulte Martin
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Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm. R.K. Cowles
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The dark places will not be instinctively frightening, true, but isn’t it better that children fear boogeymen than pedophiles? Isn’t it better that libraries are filled to the brim with stories and not only words? Thomm Quackenbush
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Sabotage isolated them from their home, thwarting any hope of outside help. Frantic, unreliable sightings of frightening things — horrible things - led to chaos. The crew, terrified, opted to die fighting and went hunting for their attacker. Kaine’s only regret was that they found it. It killed them all. Systematically. Christina Engela
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But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near camp are dark and in the woods and we had to drive for a while to get to a highway cause there was no street lights or anything and nothing but woods and my dad asked me if I had a good time and I told him I did, but that’s really a lie and I felt like telling him what it was like at that mean old camp, but I thought he’d get mad and tell me I’m making it up and I thought I’d tell him some other time like Febuary and cause I didn’t think he’d believe me anyway, but so I changed my mind and then I thought I should tell him now cause he’ll wonder howcome I never told him sooner, so when he said that’s a nasty gash and when he said what did I do, stumble on the trail and hit a big rock or something? I told him no and I told him that lots of bad things happened to me at camp and that I never want to go there again cause I hate it and I almost cried. But he said I always had a bibid emigination cause he’s sure it wasn’t that bad! And I don’t know about those big words either, but what he said made me kind of mad cause grownups always think they know what happened to you better than you do yourself. Timothy Victor Richardson
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Well, possibly, " I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself in the form of Shirley Temple as last seen on the 'Good Ship Lollipop'?"The demon twirled around, its big pink sash fluttering as it smoothed down its dress and frilly little petticoat. "My grotesque form isn't making you sick with fright?" We both shook our heads, Noelle with a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing out loud. "Shirley Temple at her pinnacle was frightening, " I finally told it, "but not in the sense I think you mean. . Katie MacAlister
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An endless path is frightening but the path that ends is even more frightening! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous. Vaslav Nijinsky
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Our sins live with us for eternity, and that is perhaps the most frightening thing of all. - Sims Simon Holt
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She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone. Lawren Leo
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Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. M. C. Escher