#terrify

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#child #company #delicious #especially #extremely

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#else #fear #feelings #inflict #less

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#absolutely free #every #feeling #free #life

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#being #choose #did #especially #fact

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #did #during

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#comedian #had #i #kind #personality

You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#terrifying #want #you

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#had #haunted #i #me #midnight

When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#came #captain #doing #eight #everyone

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#because #begin #begins #blocks #building