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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. -- M. C. Escher
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. -- William S. Burroughs
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. -- Greta Garbo
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. -- May Sarton
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery. -- Brooke Shields
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
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. -- Wilfred Burchett
Frightening and yet wonderful; wonderful and yet frightening! That is what nature is! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort. -- Emma Thompson
Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives. -- Michael Medved
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. -- Gertrude Stein
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. -- Randall Jarrell
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. -- Hugh Grant
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening. -- Barbra Streisand
The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way. -- Mary McDonnell
To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster. -- John Carpenter
All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening. -- Bridget Moynahan
Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive. -- Lorna Luft
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. -- Doris Day
Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening. -- Jeanne Moreau
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. -- Laurens van der Post
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. -- Robin S. Sharma
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. -- Julie Burchill
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. -- Ronald Reagan
We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. -- Robin Sharma
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
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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
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
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
We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about. -- Louis Kronenberger
They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe. -- Ray Brown
It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them. -- Gina Philips
One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. -- Neal Stephenson
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it. -- John Oliver
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much. -- Charles Platt
I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything. -- Kurt Cobain
His name is 'Mr. Spock.' And the first view of him can be almost frightening - a face so heavy-lidded and satanic you might almost expect him to have a forked tail. Probably half Martian, he has a slightly reddish complexion and semi-pointed ears. -- Gene Roddenberry
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
I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It's very nice. -- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II. -- Ayelet Waldman
I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money. -- Caitlin Moran
Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving. -- Gary Zukav
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The unknown is always frightening. -- Naveen Andrews
Cancer' is such a frightening word. -- Kris Carr
A non-frightening zombie is a lame zombie. -- Scott M. Gimple
possibility is far more frightening than impossibility ... -- Julia Cameron
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
It's a frightening world to be alone in. -- Jhonen Vasquez
I wanted my wild things to be frightening. -- Maurice Sendak
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life. -- Mason Cooley
Death is only frightening from the near side. -- Jim Butcher
Failure is never quite so frightening as regret. -- Sam Neill
Silence Of The Lambs is definitely very frightening. -- Jonathan Jackson
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A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening -- Jeanne DuPrau
Goals that are not frightening are not worth having. -- Dr. Stan Beecham
It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful. -- Tori Amos
A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening... -- Jeanne DuPrau
When you go on an audition it's very frightening. -- Victoria Jackson
I spend a frightening amount of money on books. -- Kevin McCloud
It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years. -- Aimee Carter
The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened. -- Neel Burton
Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder. -- Kristin Cashore
I've heard some of Victoria's new album and it's frightening. -- David Beckham
Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name. -- Cornelia Funke
That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things. -- Toni Collette
There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it -- L. J. Smith
Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world. -- Barry Lyga
If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it. -- Reese Witherspoon
The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else! -- Ayana Mathis
These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness. -- Carol Shields
And, by the way, I adore you.... in frightening, dangerous ways. -- Stephenie Meyer
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions. -- Robert Dallek
Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening. -- Gwen Stefani
Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening. -- Ray Comfort
Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous -- Gertrude Stein
There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right. -- Michael Faraday
I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets. -- Francesca Marciano
How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things. -- Colleen McCullough
Jasper chuckled, shaking his head. " You truly are one frightening little monster. -- Stephenie Meyer
I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be. -- Sonia Gandhi
Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us. -- Julia Cameron
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear. -- Penelope Leach
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening. -- Kobo Abe
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them. -- Alice Sebold
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy... -- Walter Mosley
Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good. -- Carrot Top
Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal. -- Henry James
Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking. -- Naomi Wolf
I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought. -- Arsene Wenger
I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening. -- Rory Bremner
Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race. -- Manning Marable
It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. -- Gillian Flynn
The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was. -- Mary Jo White
Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful. -- Margaret Atwood
Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread. -- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.
The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. -- Brian Pinkerton
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening. -- Sting
The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught. -- Rachel Field
Rock & roll is dying. Itâ??s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now. -- Kurt Cobain
This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election. -- Rush Limbaugh
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. -- Jack Gilbert
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough. -- Bruce Forsyth
For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening. -- Chris Bohjalian
It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art. -- Samuel R. Delany
Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures. -- M. Scott Peck
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting. -- Jonathan Maberry
We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. -- N. K. Jemisin

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