Terrified Quotes - Page 3

• Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

  George Blagden

  Kind, Horseback

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.

  Stevie Nicks

  Careers, Three, Band

  "Stevie Nicks: 'When We Walk Into The Room, We Have To Float In Like Goddesses'". Interview with Ann Powers, www.npr.org. March 17, 2013.

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• You're never terrified when you say what you mean - are you?

  Mo Mowlam

  Mean

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• I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Character, Nurse, Acting

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: 'There Is Always a Backlash'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.

  Tony Harrison

  Cousin, Crazy, Believe

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• I think governments are quietly terrified. There's massive unemployment, a recession they don't know how to deal with, and the measures they've taken are not working yet, and maybe they're not going to work. There's a prospect of significant social disorder.

  Simon Critchley

  Taken, Thinking, Government

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• I'm simultaneously terrified of the thought of existing forever and not existing at all. Wherein is my peace?

  Hannah Hart

  Forever

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• A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Taken, Should Have, Class

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• I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

  Henry Rollins

  Couple, Motorcycle

  "One last thing ... Henry Rollins". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• I've always been terrified of getting used to something that is actually killing me-a relationship or a job. But in those cases, you can count on a friend to say something. The Internet is different, because all my friends are in the same relationship.

  Miranda July

  Jobs, Different, Internet

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• Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, Eye, Please

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• She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.

  Dennis Lehane

  Brain, Insects, Whim

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.221, Hachette UK

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• When he pulled away, he smiled kindly at me. I felt so good, I'll admit I teared up a little. I guess until that moment I hadn't allowed myself to realize just how terrified I had been the last few days. "Dad-" "Shhh," he said. "No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. Not even Hercules-

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Hero, Littles

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• Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Heart, Feelings, Wake Up

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• you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally

  Scott Westerfeld

  Thinking, Years, Cities

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Specials”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Trying, Doe, Cobblestone

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.42, Macmillan

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• I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Dark, Dark Things

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.

  John le Carre

  Children, Mistake, Home

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• I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.

  Philip Larkin

  Believe, Add, Phrases

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• Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

  David Gemmell

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dark, People, Car

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• They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other.

  Eloisa James

  Mother, Eye, Decision

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• Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

  Tom Clancy

  Courage, Know How, Knows

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• we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

  Paulo Coelho

  Real, Guilt, Possibility

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• When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!

  Susan Schneider

  Philosophical, Altered States Of Consciousness, Scared

  Source: thequietus.com

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