#fright

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

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When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

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It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else. ↗

— Jerome Cady

#anything #being #being afraid #else #fear

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me. ↗

— John Carpenter

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I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ↗

— Doris Day

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Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. ↗

— Anatole France

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Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. ↗

— Greta Garbo

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