Fright Quotes - Page 2

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  Eddie Bracken

  Fun, Fear, Heaven

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• Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

  Thomas More

  Fear, Men, Use

  Thomas More (1737). “Utopia”, p.119

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• Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Character, America, Suffering

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• I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.

  Roseanne Barr

  Stars, Singing, Stuff

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• I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

  John Lydon

  Suffering, Wicked, Goes On

  "John Lydon: 'I'm fat, I'm 50 and I'm back'" by Olga Craig, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 1, 2008.

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• I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Running, Caring, Thinking

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• He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Next, Slaughterhouse 5

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

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• Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ordinary, Doe, Murder

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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• I loved her fright, which was against me into the air! and the diamond white of her forelock which seemed to smart with thoughts as my heart smarted with life! and she'd toss her head with the pain and paw the air and champ the bit, as if I were Endymion and she, moon-like, hated to love me.

  Frank O'Hara

  Pain, Smart, Heart

  Frank O'Hara (1967). “Meditations in an Emergency”, p.12, Grove Press

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• At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Odd, Unpredictable

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.10, Spectra

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• Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
  And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
  To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
  He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
  To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, War, Soul

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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• Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way." A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Nice, Wine, Thinking

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• I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.

  Bob Denver

  Weed, Marijuana, Air

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• I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of the koan, this one is not different from myself. I know this mountain because I am this mountain, I can feel it breathing at this moment, as its grass tops stray against the snows. If the snow leopard should leap from the rock above and manifest itself before me - S-A-A-O! - then in that moment of pure fright, out of my wits, I might truly perceive it, and be free.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Time, Nature, Rocks

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.89, Shambhala Publications

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• The best way to neutralise fear is by laughing. You can see the dynamics of this in action when people watch a horror movie. You'll notice that immediately after a good fright, following the sceams of terror - which is the point of maximum experience of fear - people will always laugh immediately afterward, as this is the natural way to release the fear. By laughing at something you also take away the perception that it has any power over you.

  Dean Frazer

  Laughing, People, Over You

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• I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

  Charles Hermite

  Evil, Derivatives, Horror

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• Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spirit

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Book, Humility

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• Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain of this ship now, and this is my cabin, therefore you must walk out. I am bound to Madagascar, with a design of making my own fortune, and that of all the brave fellows joined with me...if you have a mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you'll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here's a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.

  Henry Every

  Clothes, Design, Pirate

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• This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.

  Danny Elfman

  Halloween, Towns, Our Town

  Song: This Is Halloween, 1993

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• In China there was once a man who liked pictures of dragons, and his clothing and furnishings were all designed accordingly. His deep affection for dragons was brought to the attention of the dragon god, and onde day a real dragon appeared before his window. It is said that he died of fright. He was probably a man who always spoke big words but acted differently when facing the real thing.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Real, Men

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.

  Clive James

  Queens, America, World

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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• Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

  Moby

  World, Spheres, Invisible

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• Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Fashion, Selfish

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• Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

  Rachel Cohn

  Reading, Romance, Everlasting Love

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.135, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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