Frightening Quotes
- Page 2The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
Bill Bixby
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Carl Hiaasen
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
Mary Richards
The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.
Michael O'Donoghue
It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
Don Henley
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
Robert Neelly Bellah
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
Sting
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
Alva Myrdal
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
Candice Bergen
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
David Brooks
My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.
Ron Wood
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
Greta Garbo
There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.
Jo Brand
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
John C. Hawkes
Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?
David Suzuki
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
Emmanuelle Beart
You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.
Timothy West