In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.
A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.
The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.
I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.
I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.
A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.
I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.
Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.
This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life. I like Louis C. K. 's stuff or Bill Burr's stuff. I feel like there's comedy where someone will think of something that they think will work comedically, and then they reverse engineer that point of view so they can say that funny thing. The comedians I like, it could be an allusion, but it feels like their point of view comes first and then the jokes are a reflection of what they actually believe, or are frightened of, or are curious about, or are interested in.
Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.
The eye is easily frightened.
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.
Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.
The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.
Courage isn’t just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It’s being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.
I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.