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Quotes About Frightened

There was a brief windmilling of fists and the two older men staggered backwards; I didn't stay around to find out what kind of beating they took. I ran for the gangway and went straight home, frightened and sick. It was the only manner, really, in which the Centenary Cup Final could have ended.
~ Nick Hornby
it took me a long time to realize that she, too, was cautious and bourgeois, frightened of the unknown and so uncertain of herself that she could hardly bear to make a mark.
~ Claire Messud
I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
This judgment was unquestionably excessive. Their behavior was that of frightened men rather than of conspirators.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Frightened for My Life by Geoff Cugan, it will explain
~ Charles Bronson
I am agreeable to anything which is agreeable to Mr Giles,' said a shorter man; who was no means of a slim figure, and who was very pale in the face, and very polite: as frightened men frequently are.
~ Charles Dickens
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
~ Thomas R. Cech
But the fact remains – we humans are the sentient species that has shown the most tendency to deliberately refuse to communicate with other species and instead destroy them utterly. Maybe the descoladores are varelse and maybe they're not. But I'm a lot more frightened at the thought that we are varelse.
~ Orson Scott Card
He looked so glorious. Just like the knights I had dreamed about when I was six years old, whacking at brambles iin our garden, imagining I was fighting dragons and giants with a sword that made me invincible and wearing armor that protected me from all the things that frightened me - older kids, dogs, a storm in the knight, or my little sister's questions about when our father would be coming back.
~ Cornelia Funke
I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He's frightened! He needs something to cheer him up... The way I see it, as soon as a baby is born, he should be issued a banjo!
~ Charles M. Schulz
His "psychological car" was driven at various times by his inner pusher, his pleaser, his frightened child, and his inner critic, who was always willing to let him know how inadequate he really was.
~ Hal Stone
I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.
~ Alicia Vikander
What is more punished among the angry than anger? among the unsatisfied than desire? among the hate-filled than hate? among the frightened than fear?
~ Toi Derricotte
Lake Insanity lay broad and strange before them, a still reflecting pool for the frightened, confused moon.
~ Tom Clark
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.
~ Oscar Wilde
I knew, somehow, that the city behind me was Tucson—a dream Tucson thrown up out of the collective yearning of an era. That it was real, entirely real. But the couple in front of me lived in it, and they frightened me.
~ William Gibson
Two things happened: (1) The door, quite clearly, locked. (2) Out went the candles on the high walls. DON'T BE FRIGHTENED! Inigo screamed. I'M NOT, I'M NOT! Fezzik screamed.
~ William Goldman
He must be very desperate, or very frightened, or very stupid, or very brave. Very all four I should think.
~ William Goldman
He must be very desperate, or very frightened, or very stupid, or very brave." "Very all four I should think" the Prince replied.
~ William Goldman
Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist— and I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave', as you call yourself! But how are you? I see I have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Even on the first day we invaded Plover's house we sensed the conundrum that Americans are faced with in England: they're too frightened of English people to behave rudely to them, and too ignorant to know how to behave politely.
~ Lev Grossman
All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of two ways: You are dead or I am dead . If people only understood this, Portia thought, they would never be frightened, they would only need to ask themselves, Who among us has died? And then she occurred to her that she was the ghost in her story. She had spent years haunting her own life, without ever noticing.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz