Terrify Quotes

“One of the most terrifying questions of all might be, ‘Will I unleash myself to live before death unleashes me from the ability to be unleashed?’ And in retrospect, maybe it’s not the question that’s terrifying. Maybe what’s terrifying is the answer.”

“It is terrifyingly beautiful," Julia said softly. "Terrifying?" "Nature at its most beautiful and most lethal. It is like standing on the edge of one of those lakes in Switzerland, so blue and so calm and so deep and so dangerous. You have the overwhelming urge to plunge in, even though you know the cold will kill you. This desert - your desert - it makes me want to walk into it and keep walking. You probably think I'm being ridiculously fanciful." "I would not have put it in those words, but they are exactly how I feel about Qaryma. Terrifyingly beautiful.”

“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”

“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”

“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.”

“Chris. What do you want, child?"I sighed and walked another three steps forward. I stared into his eyes and spoke the one word that terrified him, "Democracy.”

“Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.”

“One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.”

“People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying.”