You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is ...
You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, 'I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.' Brave?' Annemarie asked, surprised. 'No, I wasn't. I wa...
Do not limit yourself to your own preconceptions of yourself, but throw yourself out onto a blank page that you haven't written on yet, and see what you find out about you, see what story unfolds, see what happens! I always do this, and sometimes it ...
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
It was this that frightened me--the sense that behind the lay concealed a little bourgeoise who wanted security in love.
We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.
Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)
My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears.
Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?
It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
I don’t like to brag or frighten, but I’ve got a black belt. And a brown one, which I sometimes wear with black slacks.
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
On the whole, all people are good, or at least they're normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch.
The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I never want to feel it again.
I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?
It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me because it's broken, like a shattered mirror.
