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Terrifying Quotes (page 2)

Malcolm Gladwell quote: "Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me."
Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me. Malcolm Gladwell
At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying. Instead, opium made me realize that I could say anything I liked without losing my identity. Jerzy Kosinski
Margaret Atwood quote: "Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself..."
Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience? Margaret Atwood
The world divides into those who like the managed induction of terror and those who don’t. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. David Foster Wallace
Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. C. S. Lewis
I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line. Peter O'Toole
Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death... ("Mr. Arcularis") Conrad Aiken
He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him. Diana Wynne Jones
They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword. Neal Stephenson
I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master . . . The quality that had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live. C. S. Lewis
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line..."
Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk. Stephenie Meyer
Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility. Stephenie Meyer
Augusten Burroughs quote: "It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved..."
It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then? Augusten Burroughs
She was terrified. She was beginning to realise that after long months of selfcontrol, the pressure, theearthquake, the volcano of her soul was showing signs that it was about to erupt, and themoment that this happened, she would have no way of controlling her feelings. Paulo Coelho
By this time I was nolonger very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed thelimit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything H. G. Wells

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