Quotes About Fright
Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.
~ John Donne
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Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.
~ Anne McCaffrey
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If you're making a horror film, it's very important that you have lots of quiet, suspensey, don't-know-what's-happening stuff before you get the big fright.
~ Sam Neill
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I don't like ghosts.
~ Trevor Ariza
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Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me!
~ Galileo
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The movie that scared the hell out of me was 'The Blair Witch Project.' I can't remember another movie that scared me the way that one did.
~ Y'lan Noel
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
~ Jean Paul
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Ah! I had been screaming. I realized it. Lots of mortals around me, high up in the night, were telling me to be quiet.
~ Anne Rice
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You actually enjoyed that, didn't you? (Amanda) Oh, hell yes! Did you see the look on their faces? Man, I love this car. (Kyrian) (She looked up at the sky and implored divine aid.) Dear God, please separate me from this maniac before I die of fright. (Amanda)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Four houndred billion suns spiraling through space together. Our solar system just one grain on that galactic carousel. The carousel itself a speck in the cosmos. And here I am in this small clearing, on the surface of the heart, as transient and unnoticed to the universe as the dry blades of grass that are poking into my shirt. It's too much to comprehend up there, too enormous, and I'm so small when it's on top of me. It frightens me, like I'm being crushed.
~ Elizabeth Fama
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The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
~ George A. Romero
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It was a good thing I wasn't afraid, because I was scared stiff.
~ George Alec Effinger
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Being charged by a furious matriarch elephant certainly had hearts in mouths, as did the snarling spitting Bengal tiger that gave us a fright in India.
~ Steve Backshall
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A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.
~ Franz Grillparzer
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It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence
~ Richard Wilbur
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In the traumatic neuroses there are two outstanding features which might serve as clues for further reflection: first that the chief causal factor seemed to lie in the element of surprise, in the fright; and secondly that an injury or wound sustained at the same time generally tended to prevent the occurrence of the neurosis.
~ Sigmund Freud
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Nu exist? salvare prin nebunie, fiindc? nu exist? om cu presentimentul nebuniei care s? nu se team? de lucidit??ile eventuale într-o asemenea stare. Ai vrea haosul, dar È›i-e fric? de luminile din el.
~ Emil Cioran
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I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.
~ Claire Coffee
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To tell you the truth,' repeated Sarah coldly, 'she had a fright, and the bandboxes broke loose.' 'What frightened her?' 'A Headless Horseman,' said Sarah. He was frowning again. 'Headless Horseman? Fiddlesticks!' 'Very well,' said Sarah, as one making a concession, 'then it was a dragon.
~ Georgette Heyer
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
~ Eddie Bracken
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In both instances [a car coming out of the Himalayas and tobogganning] the sensation was pleasurable--intensely so; it was a sudden and immense exaltation, a mixed ecstasy of deadly fright and unimaginable joy. I believe that this combination makes the perfection of human delight.
~ Mark Twain
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what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell Book without Boo!
~ Stephen Colbert
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She took out the last of the books, then nearly dropped the canvas bag in fright. At the bottom, neatly wrapped in a red handkerchief, she could just make out the bone grip of a Colt .45 pistol.
~ Jojo Moyes
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