#fright

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#extremely #frightened #painfully #shows #you

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#beyond #body #cessation #dying #frightening

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff. ↗

— Kate Adie

#any #child #did #frightened #i

He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#fright #humor #rincewind #humor

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ↗

— John Cage

#i #ideas #new #new ideas #old

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#child #children #frightening #home #however

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ↗

— May Sarton

#frightening #however #may #ourselves #prove

My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#courage #fear #fears #fight #fight-your-fears

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate. ↗

— David Brooks

#causes #comprehensible #confront #cult #death