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Quotes About Terrifying

The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.
~ Lauren Bacall
What a strange land this was, where the giants were peaceful and the birds terrifying.
~ Laurence Bergreen
During the Illumination process, some will see what is called "The Otherness of God," or the non-human aspect. This is quite terrifying. However, the terror goes away when one knows it is as much God as Her human form. Still, this Way is not for the timid.
~ Laurence Galian
In these days there are few sights more terrifying than that of a well-dressed man with a notebook looking at a piece of land.
~ Celia Fremlin
I wants to make your flesh creep.
~ Charles Dickens
To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and impressive than life with its own head of hair …
~ Charles Dickens
Scorpions are a mix of lobsters, spiders, wasps, and nightmares.
~ Internet meme
Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable
~ Gore Vidal
There's a whole world all around more interesting, wonderful, terrifying, mysterious, amazing than any novel ever written. Pay attention. Take a chance. Dare life.
~ Gregory Galloway
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~ Guillaume Musso
Posso dire soltanto che vi sono enti così spaventosi che il solo vederli basta a raggelare il sangue. Ma chi mi comprenderà se ora affermo che ben più terrificante è la loro invisibile vicinanza?
~ Gustav Meyrink
And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying. — Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea . (University of Nebraska Press February 1, 1991) Originally published 1983.
~ Helene Cixous
You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.
~ James Patterson
Alcuni dicono che mezzanotte è l'ora più spaventosa per ritrovarsi in un cimitero. Si sbagliano. L'ora più terrificante è la prima luce dell'alba. Perché non c'è un posto dove nascondersi. Dal dolore. Da te stesso.
~ James Patterson
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
~ Thornton Wilder
Hers was a small and lonely life, a rigorous servitude in preparation for a bigger life, as she tried to see it; yet now, just beneath the thinning fabric of her existence, she sensed an invisible roiling of vast, terrifying, dangerous things—things that would play with you if you pleased them, things that would kill you if you proved a disappointment.
~ Olga Grushin
The kid is scary.
~ Orson Scott Card
Fourteen percent of NDEers reported having frightening experiences, devils and monsters and suffocating darkness.
~ Connie Willis
The world's truth constitutes a vision so terrifying as to beggar the prophecies of the bleakest seer who ever walked it. Once you accept that then the idea that all of this will one day be ground to powder and blown into the void becomes not a prophecy but a promise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.
~ Cressida Cowell
The face of evil is frighteningly ordinary.
~ Charles W. Colson
She collected herself, and rose from the floor. "Until you have a better grasp on what we're dealing with here, I'd appreciate your immediate proximity." I did as she asked. She was the expert, after all. But what a terrifying thought, that the world's foremost expert knew only enough to live in horror.
~ Cherie Priest
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Holy bejeezus," Lula said, eyes bugged out, looking at the building. "This is scaring the crap out of me. This is like where Dracula would live if he didn't have any money and was a crack-head. I bet it's filled with rabid bats and killer snakes and hairy spiders as big as dinner plated.
~ Janet Evanovich