Frightened Quotes

“I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”
― Tennessee Williams

“It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“I want to tell him that I don't know what i feel. I want him but i'm frightened to want him. I don;t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome that fear. I have no such motivation. I can't have. I'm a witcher: an artificially created mutant. I kill monsters for money. I defend children when their parents pay me to. If Nilfgaardian parents pay me, I'll defend Nilfgaardian children. And even if the world lies in ruin - which does not seem likely to me - I'll carry on killing monsters in the ruins of this world until some monster kills me. That is my fate, my reason, my life and my attitude to the world. And it is not what I chose. It was chosen for me.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów

“Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long?”
― Stacey Jay

“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you pass life by it's jolly well going to pass you by in the future. If you're frightened it's all right--that's no harm; fear is an emotion.”
― E.M. Forster

“But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“What did you—" He swallowed. His voice was raspy. "What did you do to him?"
"Sightseeing. Your turn."
He shivered. "No, that's all right.”
― Steven Gould, Jumper

“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license to build whatever it pleases in whatever manner it pleases, I will find that I have confused safety with imprisonment.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hope refuses the constraints of our fear.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest fear is to fear fear.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A dreamer need not be bound by the pessimism of those too frightened to dream.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How often is blindness the fear of vision rather than the lack of it?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Fear your enemy and will have filled his arsenal with the most potent weapon of all.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The fear of a purpose is not the absence of one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Passion will enlarge your resources ten-fold and reduce your fear by the same.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The impossible is the rumor of the fearful.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A train wreck supposes a train as the vehicle, a track as the guide for the vehicle, and movement (without which neither train nor track would matter). But a greater train wreck would be the absence of all three due to our fear of the journey.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Run, a voice inside me whispered.

Stay another begged.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Vision tempered by fear is blindness.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you’re committed to playing it safe they’ll never be a day in your life where you’ll play.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A lie is the fear of the truth put to words.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The biggest messes that we make in life often arise out of the refusal to make one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Many aspire to freedom and speak of it in resplendent terms. Yet, few achieve it. For freedom will demand sacrifices that the men who speak of it find themselves too frightened to make. Therefore, we must refuse to be a nation of fearful men, and in doing so we must leave those men to the fate of other causes other than our own.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Look not to the past where you were embarrassed, for the most important thing is that those moments are gone, and you are still here.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Fear’s passion is to destroy yours.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Winning the battle over our cowardice is the prerequisite for any other battle.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The size of any obstacle is measured by the yardstick of our fear.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough