Frightened Quotes - Page 23

• 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

  Real, Prisoner, Felt

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• Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

  Julia Sawalha

  Parent, Feelings, Losing

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• I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again.

  Lefty Gomez

  Eye, Yankees, Glasses

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• The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.

  Robin Sharma

  Fear, Average, Faces

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• When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Focus, Fans

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• You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

  Woody Allen

  Lonely, Children, Pain

  "Woody Allen: 'The whole thing is tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

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• In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Might, Prozac Nation

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was one of the best days of his life and then he took out his gun. A .22 rifle. And he leaned forward and whispered, "Forgive me, Taylor Markham." Before I could ask how he knew my name and what I was to forgive him for he said, "Take care of my little girl." And then he told me to close my eyes. And I've been frightened to do just that ever since.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Dream, Eye

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• I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Drinking, Airports, News Stories

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• Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.

  Roger Waters

  Running, Fall, Brave New World

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• Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Money, Men, Problem

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt like a fake the whole time and it made me very, very nervous - which is why I have such great respect for actors, because I can't do what they do. I really can't do it. I'm always uncomfortable. And I'm just grateful that I recognized that this uncomfortable-ness was a sign that I shouldn't be doing it. More than not having any talent - which is clearly obvious - more than not having any talent, it was so uncomfortable and I was so insecure. And I was so frightened. And the thought of being somebody other than myself was impossible for me.

  Sherry Lansing

  Grateful, Insecure, Fake

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

  Thomas Harris

  Heart, Short Notice, Cafes

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.159, Macmillan

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• For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Children, Twilight, Prejudice

  "The Twilight Zone (The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. March 4, 1960.

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• She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

  J. K. Rowling

  World, Might, Oddness

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• We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

  Justin Torres

  Animal, Hitting, Littles

  Justin Torres (2012). “We the Animals”, p.45, Granta Books

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• I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

  Nick Bantock

  Mistake, Thinking, Offering

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• He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.

  Stephen King

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Half: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will see how important I am. Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Kissing, Important

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.197, Anchor

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• I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

  Melina Marchetta

  Morning, Enough, Jellicoe Road

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• I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!

  Anne Frank

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.

  Shirley Jackson

  Lying, Wine, Night

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.108, Penguin

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• Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

  A. A. Milne

  Winter, Ideas, Piglet

  A A Milne (1998). “Cn Pooh 12-Copy Slipcase #06: Ams - Kanga & Baby Roo Comes to the Forest”, Dutton Books

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• I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion

  Eyedea

  Cat, Lions, Littles

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• If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.

  Judith Viorst

  People, Ambitious, May

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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