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Quotes About Fright

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...
~ Bob Dylan
Terror can fill any space
~ Michael Crichton
I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
~ Al Yankovic
The 'Friday the 13th' Jason movies were way too scary for me.
~ Robert Eggers
Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.
~ Herman Melville
Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
~ Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
I'm warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.' 'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don't slay me with your magic sword!
~ Terry Goodkind
You can't reason with a nightmare
~ Terry Goodkind
All twelve of the disciples began casting out demons from those near them, in the power and authority of Jesus. The crowds moved away in fright. The celebration had been interrupted. The crowd ran away in droves. Hundreds of them. They seemed frightened to death by what they saw. Simon knew where they were running to: Pan's cave on the outskirts of the city. He knelt beside a young girl on the ground spitting up foam and speaking what sounded like magical incantations in foreign tongues.
~ Brian Godawa
Was not Saul of Tarsus converted from unbelief by a similar fright? I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
~ Herman Melville
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
~ Wes Craven
I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.
~ Joanna Garcia
We are the kind of Love Story that keeps souls awake at night and causes hearts to have stage fright.
~ Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
A turtle should take fright at the sound of a boiling pot.
~ Carol Kendall
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
~ Carson McCullers
Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.
~ Catherine Anderson
Los muertos enterrados no me daban miedo. Los vivos y los no muertos eran mucho más peligrosos.
~ Charlaine Harris
Halloween is controllable horror.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
It was the kind of weather when bad things happened, Timmy thought, the kind when monsters stepped out of the shadows to bask in the fluorescent light of the storm, drinking the rain and snatching those foolish enough to venture into their domain. And
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
Wild were his dreams, and oft he rose in fright,Waked by his view of horrors in the night,—Horrors that would the sternest minds amaze,Horrors that demons might be proud to raise:And though he felt forsaken, grieved at heart,To think he lived from all mankind apart,Yet, if a man approached, in terrors he would start.
~ George Crabbe
Sometimes when you search the night, you'll find monsters in the dark.
~ Ilona Andrews
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
~ Ilona Andrews
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
~ Jean Paul Richter