Quotes About Fright

she surrenders her bulk to the wicker armchair, which, out of sheer fright, bursts into a salvo of crackling.

Richard Whitney wrote his own requiem for the Crash. "A thing compounded of both wisdom and folly, of both heroism and fright, of stubborn persistence and impatient irresolution, of tragically shattered hopes and ambitions and of incongruous and unique episodes not without at times a certain humorous aspect.

Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

and dread came back like a hoot from a bully on the street outside.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in

You're gonna really scare them grown-ups, Paddy,' said Achilleus. 'They'll be filling their nappies in fright.

but silence is frightening to the frightened

He was afraid of certainty.

Slechts één soort besmetting verbreidt zich sneller dan een virus, en dat is angst.

fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself

He says it harshly, savagely, but he does not say the word. Like a little boy in the dark to flail his courage and suddenly aghast into silence by his own noise.

As tripe is fond of onions, darling, but what a fright they look together in the pan.

Didn't she know that knowing why doesn't make things any less scary?

There's an old goblin saying; there is nothing to fear but fear itself and scary things.

Huh! sanoi Hemuli. -Hyi, miten minä pelästyin. Tiedättehän, ettei minua saa pelästyttää, minulta voi mennä sydän väärään kurkkuun.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me. I probably didn't jump twenty feet.

There's something elementally horrific about waking before dawn.

Ryan and Frederick (1997) showed that in a population suffering from debilitating pain, pain level per se did not detract from vitality. Instead, pain fright was negatively associated with vitality, as was attending treatment for external as opposed to internal reasons. Some of the factors that may influence one's sense of vitality and contribute to its resilience are one's feelings of personal causation, optimism, and perceptions of social support.

The chicken lives as if in a dream. She has no sense of reality. All the chicken's fright comes because they're always interrupting her reverie. The chicken is a sound sleep. . . . The chicken has plenty of inner life. To be honest, the only thing the chicken really has is inner life. Our vision of her inner life is what we call "chicken.

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away; I will go down to the chapel and pray.