Frightened

Famous quotes containing the word frightened:

“When one is frightened of the truth ... then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)

“To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder.... The Army functions best when you’re frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)