#creep

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#am #creeping #grandmother #i #i am

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way. ↗

— David Niven

#always #creeping #day #felt #frankly

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#conscience #consumes #creeping #does #eats

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#around #because #creeping #creeps #creepy

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that? ↗

— Robert Stone

#knowing #me #might #need #someone

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#brutally #creeps #express #flesh #get

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#beauty

Did you really think I wouldn’t look for you?” “Honestly? Yes. You seemed a little busy losing your tongue down someone else’s throat. ↗

— Rachel Morgan

#faerie-guardian #business

The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds to penetrate the thick walls, whilst within no slamming door, nor wandering foot, nor sacrilegious voice breaks in upon the stillness, the slightest noise strikes upon the ear with a fearful distinctness. ("The Monk's Story") ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#creepy #silence #business

She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids. She pulled the tasteless web between her teeth and ground, pulling her jaw down in a grimace - it felt as it she was eating the very skin off her face. But the silk over her eyelids shifted. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#bound #captive #captured #courage #creepy