Quotes About Terrifying

Motherhood, Letty reflected, was the most exhausting thing she'd ever done. She adored her niece, but bearing sole responsibility for another human's well-being was overwhelming. Not to mention terrifying.

Another thing. Stimulation. Excitement. The kinds found in new places. Sometimes this can be terrifying, but it can also be liberating. In a familiar place, your mind focuses solely on itself. There is nothing new it needs to notice about your bedroom. No potential external threats, just internal ones. By forcing yourself into a new physical space, preferably in a different country, you end up inevitably focusing a bit more on the world outside your head.

Christ, under the law, appeared on a red horse, denoting the terror of that dispensation, and that he had yet his conflict before him, when he was to resist unto blood. But, under the gospel, he appears on a white horse

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?

A Three-headed Dog

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. —ARTHUR C. CLARKE

A few words before we attack," Surplus said. "I know that I can trust you all to be terrifying..." "Yasss!" his mountain horse said. "Be quiet, Buttercup. However, please remember to only knock down things that are not difficult to repair – porches are fine; pottery is not.

So the Yellow River is a constant, unpredictable and often terrifying character in the story of China, nothing like the benign life-bearing flood of the Egyptian Nile, whose rising was celebrated each year with unerring predictability on 15 August, or the Tigris in Mesopotamia, whose summer rising was greeted into the twentieth century with liturgies and food offerings, even in Muslim households.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

The one notable thing about Steve's niceness is that he is also very smart, and that kind of niceness has always made me nervous. When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

There is nothing special or terrifying about devil worshipers. They are just individuals drunk with the love of life.

Grandmother's English heritage meant that she had that Empire voice, that come-out-of-your-grass-huts-and-give-us-your-treasures-for-our-museums kind of voice. The woman could boom. It was seriously terrifying. Even years later when my father imitated her and she seemed part Margaret Thatcher and part horse Aeney and I were still frightened.

You have to operate, at least some of the time, in the world of mystery, beneath that great and terrifying cloud of artistic unknowing

Efficient punch of button with terrifying red nail followed by professional smile at us.

That was what I loved most about the capital; as terrifying and vast as it was, the opportunity for wonder existed. People could meet and part as in dreams.

When we so fear the dark that we demand light around the clock, there can be only one result: artificial light that is glaring and graceless and, beyond its borders, a darkness that grows ever more terrifying as we try to hold it off.

Hope is terrifying, Viola," he said. "No one wants to admit it, but it is." I feel my eyes go wet again. "Then how can you stand it? How can you bear even thinking it? It feels so dangerous, like you'll be punished for even thinking you deserved it." He touched my arm, just lightly. "Because, Viola, life is so much more terrifying without it.

Is it because hope is scary?' my father asked. I looked back at him, startled. 'You think so, too?' He smiled, full of love. 'Hope is terrifying, Viola,' he said. 'No one wants to admit it, but it is.

Hope is terrifying, Viola," he said. "No one wants to admit it, but it is.

The night is perfect in a wild way, almost terrifyingly beautiful.

A clever thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is".

clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is.