#fright

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

#ask #frightens #genre #horror #know

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

#father #frightened #him #house #i

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

— Doris Day

#about #frightening #grow #knowledge #middle

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

#become #fish #frighten #him #hooked

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

— Anatole France

#charming #delicious #everything #frightful #horrible

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

— Greta Garbo

#anyone #conceals #continuous #face #frightening

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#around #change #constant #frightening #hold

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#especially #frightening #giving #i #incredibly

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#finish #frightened #gay #going #homosexual

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #audience #din #fraud #fright