#fright

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#characters #desperate #easier #found #fragile

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#darkness #deepest #fear #frightens #inadequate

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#brave men #challenge #does #frighten #men

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#frightened #i #vulnerable

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#never #then #truth #whole

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state. ↗

— Ron Wood

#creative #drink #frightening #more #probably

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#appear #beautiful #clarity #dream #experience

Shame, shame, shame. How many times have I told you not to be frightened? Have I not told you God looks after all his children? ↗

— Willis Goldbeck

#children #frightened #god #his #how

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#frightening #get #man #quite #women are