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Quotes About Terrified

Previously it had appeared to be simply curious about her but now it reared up on its hind legs again and let out a hoarse and awful roar that chilled Liv's blood. Dear God I'm about to be eaten by a blue alien teddy bear, she thought wildly as it came toward her. What the hell are they going to put on my tombstone? Here lies Liv, Without a care She died from the bite Of a teddy bear. Okay, so maybe she wasn't completely sober yet but she was completely terrified.
~ Evangeline Anderson
I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
~ Florence Welch
Bent Literary Agency had a Q&A on Twitter, and I took a chance and asked if the Black Lives Matter movement was an appropriate topic for a YA novel. Brooks Sherman, who is now my agent, responded that he didn't think any topics were inappropriate for YA. I remember being so terrified even just sending the tweet.
~ Angie Thomas
When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.
~ Betty Hill
Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.
~ Kate Winslet
And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most...they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.
~ Brad Meltzer
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
~ Sylvia Plath
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?
~ Sylvia Plath
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.   I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
~ Sylvia Plath
Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified.
~ Tanith Lee
There's a story about a boat caught in a terrible storm. All the passengers were terrified except one, who slept in peace even as the waves pounded the boat, threatening the lives of all on board. They called that one Yeshua. The others rushed to him and begged him to save them. He stood and asked them one question. 'Why are you afraid, you of little faith?
~ Ted Dekker
Questions swirled in my brain like terrified bait minnows in a bucket.
~ Julian May
I'm starting to get the enemy and the auditors muddled up in my mind. I'm terrified of both of them, but the auditors know where I live.
~ K.J. Parker
Remember, Satan fears virtue. He is terrified of humility; he hates it because humility is the surrender of the soul to the Lord, and the devil is terrified of Jesus Christ.
~ Francis Frangipane
The first meeting of the Fraternitus Bad-Boyificus was also to be my first fighting lesson. I made a fist and showed it to Eldric. "Fistibus Briony." I shook my fist. "Eldric terrorificorumest?" "Terrific? I'm terrific!" "Not terrific!" I said. "Quite the opposite. Listen carefully: terrorificorum." "Hmm," said Eldric. "Grant me patience, O Jupiter Magnificum!" "Not terrified!" shouted Eldric at last. "never terrified of Briony's fistibus!" We laughed and laughed.
~ Franny Billingsley
Look, you should wake up worried, terrified every morning," he told his employees. "But don't be worried about our competitors because they`re never going to send us any money anyway. Let's be worried about our customers and stay heads-down focused.
~ Brad Stone
Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Anyone could end up drawing a spren, but you learned early that talking to one was pointless. Was he mad? Perhaps he should wish for that - madness was an escape from the pain. Instead, it terrified him.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I've never been more terrified than when I learned how to paramotor. They attached this machine to my back, as if I was a stuntman in a James Bond movie, and I had to fly over all these trees and patches of concrete in Cirencester.
~ Konnie Huq
'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.
~ Chris Pine
Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.
~ Milan Kundera
vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
~ Milan Kundera