Top 876 Frightening Quotes & Sayings

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

Criticism is frightening.

We have three daughters, our own. And, of course, there's nothing more frightening than something bad happening to them. And also, the thought of our children turning bad in some ways is another frightening thought.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

America's fiscal future is frightening.

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Frightening things happen in solitude.

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

The ability to be frightening with stillness is what appeals to me.

And, by the way, I adore you.... in frightening, dangerous ways.

That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.

Just how many sisters do you have? (Valerius) Eight. (Tabitha) Eight? (Valerius) What? (Tabitha) I'm just pitying whatever poor males lived in that house with all of you. It must have been truly frightening at least one week out of every month. (Valerius) Was that a joke? (Tabitha) Merely a frightening statement of fact. (Valerius)

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

"Silence Of The Lambs" is definitely very frightening.

Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.

I have almost no memory of them [St. Trinian's films]. I don't think I've seen them since I was quite young. I was a bit frightened of the girls. I fancied them. Even though I was young, I found them attractive and rather frightening. I've always been attracted to frightening girls! I'm married to one!

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

Establish character - otherwise, it is difficult to connect with what is frightening.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free and were going through Reconstruction. It was like, what do you do now? There was nothing set up.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.

One of the most memorable and frightening things when I was four or five was Kate Bush doing 'Wuthering Heights.' She did it outside, in a forest, and she did this thing where she looked straight into the camera, and it's the most frightening thing for a kid to see, but it just stuck in my head.

Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things.

Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that I wanted them to catch me and beat me. Why did I want to be punished? Shadows out of the past clutch at my legs and drag me down. I open my mouth to scream, but I am voiceless. My hands are trembling, I feel cold, and there is a distant humming in my ears.

Cancer' is such a frightening word.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

It's a frightening world to be alone in.

It's so frightening, the nationalism in the air.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Israel is frightening. Its behaviour is irresponsible.

The Gabba is not a frightening place to play.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

Neighbors are frightening enough when they're alive.

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

I've heard some of Victoria's new album and it's frightening.

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

The unknown is always frightening.

I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.

Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.

You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.

There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

I think that the invasion of suburbia, our homes and our families, by this indefatigable, unstoppable force like zombies is frightening and personal. And it's so much more frightening than a national park like Disneyland being invaded by Martians. I think that's the enduring appeal of zombies.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutality, stupidity, until it seems that there is nothing else to be seen but that--a descent into barbarism, everywhere, which we are unable to check. But I think that while it is true there is a general worsening, it is precisely because things are so frightening we become hypnotized, and do not notice--or if we notice, belittle--equally strong forces on the other side, the forces, in short, of reason, sanity and civilization.

Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.