Frightened Quotes

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened

Wars are begun by frightened men.

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost.

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.

A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!

I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

I am never frightened when I tell the truth.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."

If you're frightened, you're out of luck.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.

I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.

A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.