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Quotes About Frightening

What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.
~ Chris Van Allsburg
I am looking at birds,' snapped the brigadier, unaware that he had inadvertently strayed into the Soviet zone. 'You are looking at our airfield,' said the sentry. 'Utter rot, my dear fellow. I am Brigadier Hinde and I have not the slightest interest in counting your planes. I am looking at birds and you are frightening them away, dash it!
~ Giles Milton
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
~ Gillian Flynn
Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.
~ Gillian Flynn
To me, all that urgent hopefulness was more frightening than if I'd found a pile of skulls with hair still attached.
~ Gillian Flynn
To me, all that urgent hopefulness was more frightening than if I'd found a pile of skulls with hair still attached. I ran out in full panic, my underwear tucked up a sleeve.
~ Gillian Flynn
Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.
~ Gillian Flynn
I snuck a glance at her. She wore a teasing little smile. I shifted my attention to the fighting. What she did to me, just sitting there, amidst the fury of the end of the world, was more frightening than the prospect of a death in battle. I am too old to boil like a horny fifteen-year-old.
~ Glen Cook
I am so worried about my shoulder, which aches now as I write. The pain is frightening because of its intensity. I want so much to get rid of this pain. I must be strong. I must be strong.
~ Pam Shriver
There is something endearing about people who give themselves up completely to their faith. But there is likewise something frightening about such a totality, which also is a feature of Islam.
~ Margrethe II of Denmark
Yes, it was finished. Now, everything was finished. Everything. She hit the frightening bottom of despair.
~ Mary Balogh
A monster movie is only as good as the monster in it.
~ Matthew Reilly
I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named Further Maths. It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.
~ Maureen Johnson
The day was ridiculous. In fact, the situation was so serious I thought they had to be joking - like maybe they staged a special first day to psych people out. I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named Further Maths. It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.
~ Maureen Johnson
The inexplicable is always terrifying. But it wouldn't be so frightening if you stopped to ask yourself whether there's ever been any reason why you should have been at the top... Oh, come, Peter, smile, I'm only kidding. One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
~ Ayn Rand
This made a pattern of movement and gesture very effective and it provoked laughter, which is a welcome thing as saving from silence, but also frightening when there are many laughing together -- it is then a sea with strange tides. Players swim in the rise and fall of it and if they lose the mastery they drown.
~ Barry Unsworth
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
~ M. C. Escher
Reality, as frightening as it is, is very very funny.
~ Jonathan Winters
Omul se teme de Dumnezeu È™i Dumnezeu se teme numai de cheie. Cine o deÈ›ine îl poate distruge. Cheia trebuie s? fie distrus?, pentru c? Dumnezeu trebuie s? fie în via?? în mintea noastr?. Ceea ce ne sperie ne mângâie. Frica este putere. Dumnezeu trebuie s? tr?iasc?.
~ José Carlos Somoza
It is frightening to see distinguished intellectuals fall under Robespierre's ax. From a humane standpoint they can never be too much mourned, but divine justice is no respecter of mathematicians or scientists.
~ Joseph de Maistre
One of the most frightening things about children, in my experience, is their intelligence. They inevitably know more than we suspect them of knowing. They appraise us with devastating accuracy. And they are aware of injustices we have learned to ignore.
~ Eula Biss
He was immense. Long and thick and hard, the club of his sex rose from between his thighs. I know I said before that I always thought a man's penis is the most ridiculous part of him but there was nothing ridiculous about this. Intimidating was a word that came to mind. Also frightening, scary, and oh-my-God-how-is-he-going-to-fit-that-thing-inside-me? Well,
~ Evangeline Anderson
I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.
~ Cody Fern