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Quotes About Fright

His empty heart is full at length, But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.
~ W. B. Yeats
Don't you agree?
~ R.L. Stine
He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, "I vant to drink your blood" in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen.!
~ Rachel Caine
Grey took three steps back and watched as two little boys rushed out of the crowd, their faces bloated with fright, and ran off up the street.
~ Diana Gabaldon
chin—"and there it was. I near beshit myself.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
~ Daniel Defoe
The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.
~ Stephen King, The Green Mile
Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded.
~ Mavis Gallant
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
~ Tim Burton
There are also natural wonders, sacred because they magnetize people, wrench from them profound feelings of awe and fright. What is sacred goes far beyond the religious.
~ Diane Ackerman
Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?
~ James Agee
Burglars! Good gracious!' cried the little woman, springing from the bed in one bound. The word 'burglar' was a terrible one to her, as it is indeed, to every well-constituted woman. 'Robbery' does not sound nearly so awe-inspiring.
~ Lyman Frank Baum
But it had grown into something else, something that thrilled me even as it frightened me, made me feel that I had finally cracked through the pane of smudged glass, broken the surface of the sea. I finally felt like something other than an observer in my life.
~ Unknown
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
~ Edward Blake
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
~ Daniel Defoe
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
~ J. K. Rowling
Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!
~ Sidney Sheldon
My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.
~ Alex Borstein
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
Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of
~ Robert Benchley
We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.
~ Megan Hart
calling the nightmare
~ Michael Scott
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
~ Mignon McLaughlin