Terrified Quotes - Page 17

• I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Peace, Military, War

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• If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Real, Statistics, Facts

  "The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is". Interview with Errol Morris, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.

  Grace Helbig

  Hate, Creating, Internet

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• And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

  Osamu Dazai

  Soul, Might, Rooms

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Differences, Sometimes, Danger

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• It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went.

  Robyn

  Fall, Leaving, Trying

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• Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Shadow, Prisoner

  "Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike" by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

  Jim Cooper

  Real, Clueless, Home

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• If you're in California and it's raining, stay home, because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

  Adam Ferrara

  Rain, Home, California

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• Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too--unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child's trouble.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Daughter, Children

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].

  Laurence Sterne

  Imagination, Mind, Plight

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• They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

  William S. Burroughs

  Science, People, Ego

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.348, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.

  Sherry Turkle

  Loneliness, Emotional, Self

  Sherry Turkle (1985). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, Touchstone Books

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• AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be sexually active and to sleep with men and with women and not feel you had a responsibility in terms of having safe sex.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Responsibility, Sleep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

  Harold Ramis

  Capacity, Busters, Rational

  "Fictional character: Dr. Egon Spengler". "Ghostbusters", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

  Allegra Huston

  Father, Real, Firsts

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• I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Religious, Years

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1980). “The Shah's story”, Michael Joseph

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• The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

  Robert Payne

  Men, Games, People

  "The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America". Book by Robert Payne, "A Vision of the Uncorrupted Society", p. 279, 1975.

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• I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.

  Shilo Shiv Suleman

  Sunset, Technology, Ideas

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• My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Land, Ideas, Feminist

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• The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.

  Norman Mailer

  Believe, Thinking, World

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Faith, Courage, Shadow Of Death

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• I know that people who have been closely involved with my work for many years are terrified of having to answer to someone else, someone who is not me, and that it won't be me to help them in their problems. This is my real problem.

  Giorgio Armani

  Real, Years, People

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Clint Eastwood is so fair and consistent. It does not matter who he is talking to, he is always nice. It doesn't matter whether he is with a production assistant or Steven Spielberg, he is friendly and never seems superior. I think it is hard for people to realize that he is accessible because they are caught up in the image and can't talk to him because he is 'Clint Eastwood', so they get tongue-tied. They get terrified. It is funny watching people with him.

  Paul Walker

  Nice, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.

  Eli Roth

  Feelings, Coward, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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