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Quotes About Frightened

Well. I am not afraid. But to protect you, Katerina, I will be discreet." Plain Kate considered a cat's idea of discretion, and was frightened.
~ Erin Bow, Plain Kate
How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
~ Hafez
Out stepped Lass, - tired, confused, a little frightened, but eagerly willing to make friends with a world which she still insisted on believing was friendly. It is hard to shake a collie pup's inborn faith in the friendliness of mankind, but once shaken, it is more than shaken. It is shattered beyond hope of complete mending.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
I am a coward. I am a cowardly coward, full of cowardice.
~ Alex Flinn
I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people.
~ Andie MacDowell
We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.
~ Richard King
America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.
~ Peter Bergen
Blanche reached out and clung to her sister's hand. Rose felt her thin mittened fingers clutching her own. She knew her sister was beginning to be frightened. But Rose was too caught up in the mystery to be afraid. She strained to hear the enchanted song Bear was listening to. Her heart was pounding, but to the rhythm of a marching drum, not fear. There was a sense of purpose here, and although she did not understand it, she rejoiced to be a part of it.
~ Regina Doman
It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming real. It pricks their well-fed minds, you see, with something like a hunger pang. They prefer the logical stuffiness of expectancy. It is only at certain times that they weaken, letting imagination in. That's the time to get them. ("The Disinheritors")
~ Richard Matheson
scared out of her wits.
~ David Walliams
In their reveries, they had all been superheroes. But recently, Don had begun to question that, They had been anything but heroic. More like feral, frightened animals - jacked up on adrenaline, hash, and uppers - getting by on firepower, cunning and ruthlessness. Killing without thought, surviving. Making mistakes, sometimes pushing much too far.
~ Jay Newman
The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
~ Jean Paul
Always, as I looked back, I could see that there had been an almost willful intent to obscure, to misdirect, disguised as concern that we not be frightened or overwhelmed.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
~ Cai Guo-Qiang
I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
~ Caity Lotz
Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.
~ Bradley A. Smith
And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.
~ Elton John
The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
~ Richard M. Weaver
The impostor syndrome. I know it well. Inside every self-assured professional lives a frightened neurotic who prays that he can somehow succeed before his clients discover the fraud. It's the guilty secret that drives us all.
~ Richard North Patterson
I'm not going to stay sround to send reapers to kill people who are too scared, or frightened, or JUST PLAIN STUPID to find joy in life.
~ Kim Harrison
Well, said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of it, for it must be a very uncomfortable thing not to be alive. Those creatures frightened me so badly that my heart is beating yet.
~ L. Frank Baum
El león cobarde
~ L. Frank Baum
Too many roads leading him back to a woman whose past frightened him almost as much as it intrigued him.
~ Amanda Stevens