Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules. . . . We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
New Year's Eve always terrifies me.
I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.
Traffic terrifies me.
The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day.
Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?
I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. That wanting nearly drove me mad. ” Patch paused, inhaling softly, as though breathing me in. “And now that I have you, the only thing that terrifies me is having to go back to that place. Having to want you all over again, with no hope of my desire ever being fulfilled. You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that.
It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.
I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.
Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.
If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.
