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Quotes About Fright

Distill'dAlmost to jelly with the act of fear.
~ William Shakespeare
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
~ Jean Paul Richter
The Catholic Church, though I think it's important that people grow up with moral values, I just always disagreed with their tactics, which I thought were fright tactics, as opposed to sitting down and explaining the situation.
~ Ronnie James Dio
Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
~ Robbie Coltrane
If you can think of anything more terrifying than that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let's hear about it.
~ Roald Dahl
frozen with fright. This was the witching hour all right. The tall black figure was coming her way. It was keeping very close to the houses across the street, hiding in the shadowy places where there was no moonlight.
~ Roald Dahl
screamed and jumped out of the
~ Deborah Rodriguez
If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies.
~ Bindi Irwin
Horrific things should be presented as horrific.
~ Jeremy Podeswa
I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.
~ Monica Keena
I... do... not... do... lightning.
~ Ridley Pearson
BAD HALLOWEEN
~ Rob Harrell
Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
~ Robert Benchley
The goblins of her fancy lurked in every shadow about her, reaching out their cold, fleshless hands to grasp the terrified small girl who had called them into being. A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still. The long-drawn wail of two old boughs rubbing against each other brought out the perspiration in beads on her forehead. The swoop of bats in the darkness over her was as the wings of unearthly creatures.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.
~ Alan Gratz
Terror. That was it.
~ Roddy Doyle
The King of Crows raked his fingers across the dark until it bled. He licked the blood from his fingers with a forked tongue. "People will believe anything, you know. You only need them to be frightened enough.
~ Libba Bray
Don't leave me alone! A cry in the night, Of anguish heart-stiking, Of soul-killing fright. Live for my living Or else I must die Don't leave me alone. A world heard that cry.
~ Anne McCaffrey
I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.
~ Maurice Sendak
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Frightened, but determined, and if the time came to be brave, I am quite sure you would be very, very brave.
~ Lois Lowry
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
I'm frightened of the dark.
~ Nicola Roberts