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Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them. -- Michael Hutchence
If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying! -- Byron Katie
I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description. -- Luke Evans
Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself. -- James Baldwin
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying. -- Meg Cabot
I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you. -- Pablo Neruda
I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack [in the stall]. and I was like, "If you tell anyone what you've seen..." -- Elizabeth Gilbert
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. -- Ronald Reagan
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me. -- Taylor Swift
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. -- Jim Morrison
After so long being thin, it was terrifying being heavier. But I am a naturally curvy Hispanic girl. I don't deprive myself. -- Demi Lovato
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. -- Cesare Pavese
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. -- E. L. Doctorow
As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom. -- Natasha Lyonne
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. -- Anton Chekhov
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Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss. -- Martha Beck
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. -- Truman Capote
A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it. -- Alan Moore
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. -- Joseph Rotblat
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down. -- Mary Karr
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature. -- Thomas Bangalter
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. -- Ariana Grande
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. -- Thomas A. Edison
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. -- Joyce Brothers
The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book. -- Paul Kane
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated. -- Eli Roth
Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human within the beast and knowing you can't reach it. It might as well be a great white shark. There is no sitting down and discussing Proust with it, which the traditional vampire model seems to leave room for. You can have a conversation. -- Glen Duncan
When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means. -- Rosemary Mahoney
Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. -- Paul Bloom
Performing was terrifying. -- Bryan Ferry
Every angel is terrifying. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
It's terrifying to show incomplete footage. -- Dylan Clark
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness. -- Cornelia Funke
Theater has always been terrifying to me. -- Merritt Wever
Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying. -- Tatiana Maslany
There's nothing more terrifying then a teenage girl. -- Chris Colfer
Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists. -- Frantz Fanon
The amount of money one needs is terrifying... -- Ludwig van Beethoven
She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz. -- Jesse Schell
Friends don't menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay? -- Sarah Rees Brennan
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying. -- Nikita Khrushchev
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. -- Salvador Dali
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. -- Carl Jung
Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine, -- David Suzuki
Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying. -- Jim Gaffigan
The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me. -- Charlie Day
You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. -- Maurice Sendak
Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal. -- Young-Ha Kim
Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. -- Frederick Soddy
The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself. -- Saul Alinsky
Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power. -- Dean Koontz
The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last. -- Daina Chaviano
There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep. -- Claud Cockburn
Falling has become far more terrifying to me than rising. -- Chris Murray
The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds. -- Frank Herbert
It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry. -- Elizabeth Berg
Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying? -- Orhan Pamuk
I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A. -- George Michael
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable. -- Abby Sunderland
To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society. -- Cecil Taylor
I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying. -- Zooey Deschanel
An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time. -- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people. -- Katherine Heigl
Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying. -- David Benioff
What Messi does is terrifying. It's indescribable magic. You can't analyze it. -- Cesar Luis Menotti
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. -- Daniel Defoe
We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare -- Iggy Pop
Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood. -- Joseph Losey
The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying. -- Domhnall Gleeson
The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying -- Darren Shan
It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become. -- Audrey Flack
There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea. -- Lance Henriksen
The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented. -- John Fowles
To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdomp 364 -- Melanie Benjamin
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. -- Thornton Wilder
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity. -- Anais Nin
People say that being in love is amazing. They lie. It's freaking terrifying. -- Molly McAdams
The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper. -- David Ayer
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought. -- James M. Cain
Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me. -- Jenny Slate
Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier. -- Alexa Von Tobel
Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. -- Douglas Coupland
Death is terrifying and beautiful, a final thing we can all do together. -- Shane Warren Jones
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. -- David Mamet
Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time. -- Susan Cheever
She cleans a toilet inside and out under a minute. More like terrifying -- Becca Fitzpatrick
The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made. -- Alfred Hitchcock
The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines. -- Hallie Ephron
You are terrifying and strange and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love. -- Warsan Shire
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love. -- Warsan Shire
Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free. -- Mark Epstein
There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right. -- Libba Bray
The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me. -- Paul Dano
It's such a terrifying thing when mobs of people get together and persecute foreigners. -- Michael Fassbender
Gentleman, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man. -- Mark Driscoll
It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band. -- Dave Grohl
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go. -- Nicole Kidman
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There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man. -- George R. R. Martin
Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me. -- Sandra Cisneros
Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought. -- Emily Haines
Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. -- R. Scott Bakker
Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction. -- Christian Baloga
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. -- Lewis Thomas
Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life. -- Lucy Fry
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying. -- Arabella Weir
It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it. -- Sarah MacLean
Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence. -- Jimmy Carr
It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror. -- Vera Farmiga
He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness. -- Alan Kinross
The most necessary steps in one's journey in life are also often the most terrifying. -- Graham Aitchison
Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil! -- Saint John Chrysostom
I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept. -- James M. Cain
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. -- Joseph Conrad

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