quotes about Frightened
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Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.
-- Alma KatsuSource : Alma Katsu (2012). “The Reckoning: Book Two of the Taker Trilogy”, p.63, Simon and Schuster
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I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.
-- Amy Winehouse -
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
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I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.
-- Beatrice SparksSource : Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
-- Colin Baker -
Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.
-- Cynthia Heimel -
But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
-- Damien Hirst -
Yokozuna's Bonzai Drop literally scared me as a kid. It frightened me.
-- Daniel BryanSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.
-- Elmore LeonardSource : "This much I know: Elmore Leonard". Interview with John O'Connell, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.
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Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.
-- Gary Zukav -
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Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.
-- George Orwell -
Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.
-- Germaine Greer -
After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.
-- Giancarlo Esposito -
When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.
-- Grace Ogot -
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I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
-- Han Suyin -
If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?
-- Helen McCrorySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.
-- Helen McCrorySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.
-- Jane Rule -
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
-- Jean Anouilh -
If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
Courage isn’t just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It’s being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.
-- Jon Pertwee -
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The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?
-- Judi Dench -
Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.
-- Kiki Smith -
I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas -
It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.
-- Lindy West -
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A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
-- Lister Sinclair -
When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.
-- Lucy Freeman -
Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
I am never frightened when I tell the truth.
-- Malalai Joya -
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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.
-- Marianne Faithfull -
I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.
-- Marianne Wiggins -
Dont be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
-- Mark Lawrenson -
I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.
-- Meg Rosoff -
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics.
-- Mohammed DahlanSource : "Islamic Jihad member killed in phone booth explosion", www.cnn.com. April 5, 2001.
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When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.
-- Nicholas BrendonSource : "Actor gets the word out on stuttering" By Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.
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I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.
-- Nick Bantock -
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But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.
-- Nicole MonesSource : Nicole Mones (2007). “Lost in Translation”, p.251, Delta
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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.
-- Orson Welles -
Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.
-- Paul Mazursky -
I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
-- Rachael TaylorSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals.
-- Robert DenningSource : The AD100 Architectural Digest, v. 57 #1, p. 48, January 2000.
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Better be killed than frightened to death.
-- Robert Smith SurteesSource : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32
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Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
-- Shia LaBeoufSource : "The Mixed-Up Life of Shia LaBeouf" by Dotson Rader, parade.com. June 14, 2009.
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I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor -
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The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.
-- Tahir Shah -
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
-- Teresa of Avila -
If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.
-- Terry Brooks -
One of the things I preach to all my staff is never be frightened to make a decision.
-- Theo Paphitis -
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
-- Vernon Howard -
I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.
-- Woody Allen -
If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened.
-- Erol AlkanSource : Source: thequietus.com
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I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!
-- Georgia O'Keeffe -
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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
-- Ross MacdonaldSource : Ross Macdonald (2010). “The Way Some People Die”, p.233, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened
-- Terry Leahy -
Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.
-- Jon PertweeSource : "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (10.4, "Planet of the Daleks"), 7 April - 12 May, 1973.
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It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.
-- Lindy WestSource : "What happened when I confronted my cruellest troll" by Lindy West, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2015.
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