45 Quotes About Frightening

Resolving our fear occurs by walking into that which we fear rather than thinking about how we resolve our fears without the walking.

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.

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.

Fear commonly makes adversaries of us. But sometimes, in the rarest, most frightening moments, fate brings together people, forming everlasting friendships and occasionally, the remarkable bond of love.

The future is frightening, I know. The choice is the hardest of all.

She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

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.