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Quotes About Petrifying

He would not be strong enough to gaze directly upon the petrifying face of the uroboros, so he raises its image to consciousness and kills it "by reflection.
~ Erich Neumann
Worse still, it isn't actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own.
~ Bill Bryson
The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.
~ Tahir Shah
I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.
~ Leo Tolstoy