Quotessence
Home / Topics / Scared Quotes

Scared Quotes

Browse 2047 quotes about Scared.

Related topics

PeopleThinkingIfsKnowsWantFeelsWayMenTryingLittlesBeing ScaredLooksFirstsKindWorldSaidKidsRunningStillsI CanMeanPersonsRealWritingSometimesGivingNeedsBigsHappensYearsFeelingsGuyHorrorScaryWould BeFearMadeMightDoneFacesBelieveDiesFilmShouldFeltLongUsedWellsChildrenBraveWantedStuffBitsReasonRememberTwoGirlDifferentFallHardIdeasEnoughMindShowsActorsDyingFightingMomentsWholeDreamNervousNightAbleEndsFunLaughingMatterWalksDarkHellRealizingSchoolWorriedCountryEyeFactsHateHeartHurtMayTodayTogetherChanceHas BeensHomeMovingSawsTerrifiedAsksProblemmore

Scared Quotes

“I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is a world of adventure, a new galaxy. I'm big on adventure. But I don't assume that just because the word cyber is being used as a prefix, doesn't give it anymore value or credence. Cyber relationships have the illusion of intimacy, sometimes with the absence of intimacy. Is it better to have a conversation in a café or on the telephone?”

WorldGivingMadeSometimesBigsUsedValuesAdventureConversationIllusionTransformationAssumingProfoundScaredAbsenceIntimacyTelephonesGalaxyUnderwearCyberCredence
Author:Tom Waits
Create image

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”

ThinkingKnowsNeedsRealEndsFacesDiesEnergyBornForgetKnow HowGreaterFailingStupidBrokenShapesLosingHigh SchoolAdultsSizeScaredTeenagerLive LifeManifestationHopelessTeensTeenageInvincibleAlaskaSlyLooking For Alaska BookLabyrinth Looking For AlaskaPudgeTeenage Life
Book:Looking for Alaska
Create image

“They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded.”

LooksHeartMatterEarthNightThreeStrongWaitingDarkGoneSkyPlanetsMy HeartScaredConfusedLook UpVery HappyPlanet EarthNight SkyFriends AgainThree FriendsMake Me Strong
Author:Russell Banks
Create image

“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”

IfsRealSelfArtistChanceAskingScaredFinding YourselfChances AreInnovatorsCounterfeitReal OnesSelf Confident
Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Create image

“Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.”

IfsNeedsHumansHeartSoulReasonEnoughGivenWishStarsCompassionGreaterColdSurpriseScaredDisappointmentStrangerTinyPityYour SoulReason WhyUrgesCaressUnwiseExpect NothingMidget
Author:Alice Walker
Create image

“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”

KnowsWholeMomentsHomeWisdomSoundRoomsSunStrangeTiredScaredStrangerWoodsHearingWhole LifeGhostHotelSecondsFar AwayFifteenCeilingsFootstepsSteamCrackedHotel RoomsUpstairsAway From HomeRoad LifeOld Wood
Book:On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Create image

“And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.”

IfsWantTwoCuttingShotsScaredGhostEmsCowardThroat
Author:C. S. Lewis
Create image

“Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.”

PeopleIfsWantNeedsFeelsHeartHouseHurtDyingLonelyScaredGood FriendBeing ScaredSo LonelyJust FriendsBad Friend
Author:Stephen King
Create image

“Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know?”

IfsKnowsHappensHouseJesusDarkRoomsCitiesWonderNiceHappenedCryBabyMomLoversAngryScaredCoveredHidingEmbarrassedYardsBlanketNice House
Author:George Saunders
Create image

“I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.”

WayNeedsMotherForeverGoes OnNeededWalkingDecidedHotScaredHeavyRageChestsAnother WayBeing Scared
Book:Good in Bed
Create image

“An ad that pretends to be art is - at absolute best - like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.”

WantFeelsArtRealSpiritCausesPerfectCasesEffectsOffersDespairArt IsLonelyAbsolutesAngryScaredDefenseGenuineMessConfusedAdsWant SomethingDishonestyGoodwillSinisterCumulativeSimulacrumGenuine Smiles
Author:David Foster Wallace
Create image

“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”

MayFoundLostIgnoranceLessonsOrdinaryMiracleSacredScaredNeighborFlightDaily LifeElsewhereFamily And FriendsMiraculousBackyardsConfrontingNeighbors Friends
Author:Abraham Maslow
Create image

“She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer.”

PeopleWould BeCareWantedGrowsHurtGrowing UpBabyColdScaredAbsenceDrivingCertaintyLashesWarp
Book:Little Earthquakes
Create image

“I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to a trickle of blood from my nose, sometimes I wake scared and shaking. I read, go to museums and visit Lilly in the afternoon. Sometimes I read to her, sometimes I talk to her, sometimes I just sit and remember the times, remember the times, remember the times." (James Frey, pg.119)”

StillsSometimesDreamRememberSleepBloodDrugDrinkingScaredNosesMuseumsAfternoonShakingHang Over
Book:My Friend Leonard
Create image

“He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared. The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head down, sobbing. You're not the one who has to worry about everything. The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? He said. He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.”

MenSaidFacesDiesAnswersBoysWorryScaredHungrySatWetPapaSobbing
Author:Cormac McCarthy
Create image

“I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.”

IfsKnowsEndsBigsMightWantedMotherWinningLinesAbilitySawsFateSucceedOfficeLuckScaredChinaChosenMapsWhat IfWeedTraitsDestinedAbsentPsychiatristAbility To Succeed
Author:Deb Caletti
Create image

“For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on its axis but they say you don't feel it, you can't experience it. But to feel it is to be scared and happy at once and to know that nothing matters but that you do what you want to do and what you do you are. And I knew I was moving into the future. There is not PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or ever to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.”

KnowsWantFeelsFirstsMatterEarthPastMovingSpaceFirst TimeScaredWhat You WantDrivingEmptinessSpinningRushingAxesNothing Matters
Author:Joyce Carol Oates
Create image

“For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.”

PeopleLongEnoughInterestBornPathIdentityHabitDegreesLong TimeShadowScaredShadeAccustomedSeemingProminentNarrow Path
Author:Charlotte Bronte
Create image

“I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was finally there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in.”

ChildrenLittlesLongRunningFightingSidesAbilitySecretBehindsSawsWeaponsLong TimeDaughterLaysScaredInvisibleSpotsInstantBarriersHidingInvitesRunning AwayLong Time AgoNeedlesArmorOld WomanKnittingUncannyKnitting Needles
Book:The Joy Luck Club
Create image