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Quotes About Fright

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
~ Helen Keller
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
~ Jean Anouilh
We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared
~ Suzanne Collins
Softly as brown-eyed Angels rove I will return to thy alcove, And glide upon the night to thee, Treading the shadows silently. And I will give to thee, my own, Kisses as icy as the moon, And the caresses of a snake Cold gliding in the thorny brake. And when returns the livid morn Thou shalt find all my place forlorn And chilly, till the falling night. Others would rule by tenderness Over thy life and youthfulness, But I would conquer thee by fright!
~ Charles Baudelaire
it's like being attacked by a RAT!
~ Chaucer Geoffrey
A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.
~ Tim O'Brien
First a playroom (where the silence was softer), then a refuge (from her brothers' fright), soon the place became the point.
~ Toni Morrison
If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.
~ Kerry Greenwood
And when she went to look at it, she nearly died of fright, it was so ugly. Its eyes were jellyfish, its hair of seaweed, and the mouth was like a mussel.
~ Knud Rasmussen
We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead." "Do the dead frighten you?" Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile.
~ George R.R. Martin
O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
Hey Nash! You scared?' 'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!
~ Sylvia Nasar
When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed. One night, as I did that, there was this gigantic spider next to my pillow. I hit the bed and bounced straight back up When I turned the light back on, it was already gone. I could not sleep in my room for days.
~ Brian Krause
Don't be afraid, be terrified
~ Christopher Pike
Oh! oh! he said, with a smile; to all appearance, this is a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put themselves under shelter.
~ Victor Hugo
When a man resorts to violence, he's scared
~ Kristin Hannah
her bedside.  She shut her eyes tightly against the sight
~ Glynnis Campbell
A coward's heart panteth in his breast...
~ Homer
Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
~ Octavia Spencer
I was very nervous as a child and had stage fright.
~ Ayushmann Khurrana
Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no delight the equal of dread
~ Clive Barker
i dream of ships at sea, on a stormy night i wish that it was me, but i wake up in fright
~ Colin Hay
You are a soulless monster whose fright mask is incapable of capturing human expressions.
~ Colson Whitehead