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Quotes About Scared

I like everything, I replied, feeling misrepresented and only half amused right back. I don't hate the world. I'm scared of it. There's a difference.
~ David Rakoff
Any time you catch folks lying, they are scared of something. Lying is dodging. People with guts don't lie. They tell the truth and then if they have to, they fight it out. You lay yourself open by lying. ..Nothing can lick you if you never get scared.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.
~ Hugh Jackman
They will come at dawn, I think to myself. The way attackers have done since attacking was first invented. Dawn. When we're tired, hungry, bored, scared. They will come in at dawn, and they will come in from the East, with a low sun behind them.
~ Hugh Laurie
I'm getting really paranoid,' I said. 'I keep thinking, any moment, I'm going to get done for something that I didn't even know was illegal. I'm scared that if I fart too loudly I might get hanged for polluting the environment.
~ Unknown
was enrolled in. He was involved with the Scared Straight program and various other inmate self-helps.
~ Unknown
It's just the vibe I got when I landed in New Orleans. The culture is absolutely different. It's so dangerous, I tell you, I fly in and I fly out of town. That's how scared I am. And this is where I came from.
~ Tyrann Mathieu
My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.
~ Brian Wilson
Stalking is a cruel and incessant crime with often terrifying consequences. Victims can be tormented for years, left too scared to leave their homes and unnerved by the slightest unexpected sound.
~ Amber Rudd
London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.
~ Emma Thompson
I've been scared plenty of times. What I've never been is fearless. If you can run into a battle unafraid, you're not courageous, you're just a dumbass. It's knowing the price you're going to pay and being willing to pay it anyway that makes you brave.
~ Jill Shalvis
It's all your fault. I'm not usually so noisy. -It worked to our advantage. You kept the bears scared off.
~ Jill Shalvis
I was scared. Not in that half-pleasant adrenaline-charged way, but quietly scared. Wait-on-the-results-of-medical-tests scared. It's a rational sort of fear that puts a lawn chair down in the front of your thoughts and brings a cooler of drinks along with it.
~ Jim Butcher
Dead silence. "Drink some coffee," I told him. He did. "Scared?" "Yeah." "Good," I said. "That's smart." "Well, then," he murmured. "I m-must be the smartest guy in the whole world.
~ Jim Butcher
What eggs?" Maggie Rose asked. "Come on, I'll show you." Mr. Swanson took us toward a big wooden box in the middle of the parking lot. It had some bushes and flowers growing inside it. "A goose laid some eggs right in this planter," Mr. Swanson said. "But a couple of days ago, some men were here fixing potholes in the parking lot, and I guess the noise scared her. She flew away and never came back.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.
~ Stephen King
I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.
~ James Spader
I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.
~ John Elway
I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that's just my day, not my week.
~ Rachel Caine
I know she is scared of this simple task even if the fear is something she can't—or won't— acknowledge. Fear, perhaps, is not based on the chemical component of adrenaline alone. It acts also on inexperience, or venturing into the unknown, even if that unknown is as uncomplicated a thing as a swimming pool. At least, the pool feels uncomplicated to me, a natural extension of myself. To Xanthe, who has never been in one, it might seem like the great wild unknown.
~ Rachel Cohn
The woman in the hallway looks like Sarah, except she appears to be scared shitless
~ Dean Koontz
He'd known of her, of course; everyone in the neighborhood knew of Katie. She was that beautiful. But few people really knew her. Beauty could do that; it scared you off, made you keep your distance. It wasn't like in the movies where the camera made beauty seem like something that invited you in. In the real world, beauty was like a fence to keep you out, back you off.
~ Dennis Lehane
The way I approach an election, I assume nothing. I run scared as a jackrabbit.
~ Bill Nelson
I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
~ Dakota Fanning