Frightening Quotes

“Hi Hazel Well here I am in the office and it’s dead quiet. What I’ll do is email pics of some of the stuff in the files and the comments with them. This is exactly what you wanted – stuff about the Games people played together with comments people made. Perfect!”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

“Ask if you would like to,’ he said, smiling, ‘Or if you prefer, we could just sit.’    ‘But I guess you’re not just sitting.’   He smiled again. ‘No.’   ‘So … are you praying?’   ‘Yes. I try and pray a lot.’  ‘Can I pray?’  ‘Yes. Of course.’  ‘I think … maybe …’  ‘Yes?’  ‘You are praying that I might be able to pray. Because you know that I don’t know how to.’ ‘Yes, I am. And I believe you will be able to. There is something you need help with, and you will get that help.’  ‘So … is God there then?’  ‘Yes, God is there. God is here. Everywhere. He wants you to ask for help and He will give it. He wants you to know what to ask for. You can ask Him anything.’ ‘Anything?’   ‘Anything at all. Absolutely anything at all. He will give you strength and guidance and protect you from evil.’  Natasha sat very still and wiped away the tears. She wished she could believe it.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

“Alisha was now sitting in a shabby armchair with her face buried in a tissue. ‘It’s when someone is kind,’ she whispered, ‘You can keep going until someone is kind.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

“Love might be frightening, at times, and some are scared of becoming infatuated. Therefore, they may rather choose to chicken out, while walking on thin ice, poise and guts are letting them down. (“Amour en friche”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“And that is how someone who is unusally susceptible to nightmares, night terrors, the Creeps, the Willies and the Seeing Things That Aren't Really There talks himself into making one last trip to the abandoned, almost-certainly-haunted house where a dozen or more children met their untimely end.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Zam watched as the creature began to fade, until it disappeared altogether and all that remained was his own reflection in the mirror. He wondered if he was still sleeping, wondered if his nightmares were seeping into his waking moments. Maybe he was just going crazy. The only sign he was not going crazy was the fine line of blood that slowly trailed down the inside of the mirror.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

“Suddenly feeling tired, Bonnyman yawned with his eyes closed. When he re-opened them, the changeling stood a few feet in front of him, staring at Bonnyman like it was a meal waiting to be eaten.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

“Missing: A teenaged girl with lanky, blonde hair and a sunburst tattoo on her cheek. The holographic posters, brighter than day itself, lit up the air on every block of Main Street.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

“I have spent a great deal of my life struggling to keep myself in control. To know myself inside and out, everything In perfect order. I lose that when I'm with you. That frightens me, and it frightens me how much I like it. How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let it go. To let you save me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Our sins live with us for eternity, and that is perhaps the most frightening thing of all. - Sims”
― Simon Holt, Soulstice

“My own blood always tasted disappointing. I wondered if it tasted that way to God too.”
― Eli Wilde, My Unbeating Heart

“Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself in the form of Shirley Temple as last seen on the 'Good Ship Lollipop'?"
The demon twirled around, its big pink sash fluttering as it smoothed down its dress and frilly little petticoat. "My grotesque form isn't making you sick with fright?"
We both shook our heads, Noelle with a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing out loud. "Shirley Temple at her pinnacle was frightening," I finally told it, "but not in the sense I think you mean.”
― Katie MacAlister, Sex and the Single Vampire

“A shadow moved in the street below and my mind became focused on the movement. This shadow caught my attention because it moved so quickly. Usually when people remained in the shadows they moved slowly, unless they were running from something and then the sound of running could be heard. I did”
― Eli Wilde, My Unbeating Heart

“I took the pistol off the man and shot him with it in both of his eyes. Somewhere in the back of my mind I heard a voice telling me that the blind would lead the blind.”
― Eli Wilde, My Unbeating Heart

“Of course, everyone has a touch of madness in them. In fact, there’s something frightening about a person who isn’t a little crazy.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

“But Julia wouldn’t know what was good for her if it jumped up and bit her on the ass.” ”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Catch .22

“I often think that perhaps it is a pleasant thing for the unwitting to reside in the knowledge of the unknown, for I feel folks there mustn't worry much, but for many, the notion of not knowing is exceedingly frightening in itself.”
― Trinity Vinton

“Ale każdy wie, że u nas władza świecka tak samo jak i moja służyć ma jeno Najwyższemu Panu i rozdzielić tego się nie da. Bo w Rzeczypospolitej tak jest, tak było i będzie o wieki, że przed ołtarzem i ksiądz, i biskup, dziedzic i starosta, sędzia, książę czy król sam, wszyscy jednako wiarę wyznają i z Bogiem na ustach i Maryją w sercu władzę sprawują. (...) A ludzie? - machnął ręką. - Stokowski, toż to hołota głupia. Wiara, strach i bieda to teraz trójca twoja, która połączona w jedno, posłuszeństwem się staje. Pójdą za tobą jak te owce na rzeź. W Boga wierzą i w Kościół święty. Czarta się boją i głodu. To wystarczy. A jeśli wroga wskażesz i jedność wokół niego stworzysz, to i głód, i biedę łatwiej przetrwają.”
― Tomasz Kowalski, Nie pozwolisz żyć czarownicy

“Resolving our fear occurs by walking into that which we fear rather than thinking about how we resolve our fears without the walking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The potential within each of us is massive. And it is petrifying to think that a power that large and that wonderful can instantly fall to something as small and anemic as greed. Yet, what’s more frightening is not that we let that happen, but that we often invite that to happen.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Reality TV, as we all know by now, is scripted. This is the most frightening vestige of President Trump's TV career: in his world, reality doesn't dictate the script; the script dictates reality. When reality doesn't favor or flatter him ,he simply says what he wants to be true. And in the minds of his fanatics - absolutely blitzed on a decade or three of antimedia, antiacademia, paranoiac propaganda - it becomes true. It's a kind of magic.”
― Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

“Sometimes it seems that we choose to see the ‘parts’ of our lives as the ‘whole’ of our lives. Parts are far less frightening, for if we were sufficiently daring to piece them together with all the other assorted parts of our life, the ‘whole’ of them might become bigger than the ‘whole’ of us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Bravery is to acknowledge that we are cowards who have committed ourselves to keeping our cowardice on a very short leash.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Riot was her element, as surely as this dark room almost creeping with amassed objects. The street and the hothouse; in V. were resolved, by some magic, the two extremes. She frightened him.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“I am beginning to like the way you talk to me and that is frightening. There was the faintest of smiles in his voice.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Demon

“Transformation that is neither fiercely turbulent nor inordinately frightening is not transformation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The most frightening Enemy, the most neutral Companion and the best Friend: Time.”
― Sino Melo

“The most frightening Enemy, the most neutral Companion and the best Friend: the Present.”
― Sino Melo

“Regalia Mason frightened her because she was very clever and almost kind sometimes, the way people who didn't care about you at all could be kind.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Tanglewreck

“It's all right to feel afraid, you know." He smiled. "Being brave doesn't mean not feeling afraid. True bravery is feeling your fear, but going ahead and doing what's right anyway.”
― Kirsty Applebaum, The Middler