Frightened Quotes - Page 19

• 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 Sparks

  Insecure, Jocks, Bigs

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't endure? They couldn't stand it either, so they made a world of their own. Well, they have each other's company, and they are heroes, whereas I'm quite alone, and have none of the qualities essential to heroism - the spirit, the toughness, the dedication. I'm back where I was as a child, solitary, helpless, unwanted, frightened.

  Anna Kavan

  Children, Hero, Dedication

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

  Stephen Levine

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.21, Harmony

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• A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Children, Men, Old Man

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

  Myles Munroe

  Army, People, Leader

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• Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Two

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Mean, Humor

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• Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Appreciation, Night, Sea

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1006, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

  Terry Gilliam

  Insecure, People, Groups

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

  Melvyn Bragg

  Leaving, Unhappy, Mental Illness

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• Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Fall, Contracts

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• We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. Luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights - the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Rights, America

  John Steinbeck (2009). “Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team”, p.31, Penguin

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• People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Writing, Play, People

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• He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens. ... Pi understood this need to hold on. To let let go of his pain. It had become such a part of him. Who would he be without it? The thought frightened him. So he wandered the halls of the catacombs like the other souls who were half-dead and half-alive.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Letting Go, Pain, Voice

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• The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beauty, Love Is, Men

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• Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

  Emile Zola

  Dog, Heart, Pity

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• All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.

  Francis Brett Young

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

  Friedrich Engels

  Order, People, Useless

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

  Bruno Latour

  Sleep, People, Climate

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• You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Eye, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think the media's a little frightened of women.

  Nikki Haley

  Thinking, Media, Littles

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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

  Confrontation, Has Beens, Ifs

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• Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

  Larry Norman

  Lonely, Trying, Different

  Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.

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• I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it's about time you showed up around here.' I wanted to detach him from her, but first I had to sit through about ten minutes of her. She was my sister, but you don't tell women things like I wanted to tell him. I don't know why, but you don't. You tell them the things you have under control; the things that you're frightened of, you tell other men if you tell anyone.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Men, Doors

  Cornell Woolrich (1943). “I wouldn't be in your shoes”

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• After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Strong, Fear, Breathing

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