Frightened

Famous quotes containing the word frightened:

“They will mark the stone-battlements
And the circle of them
With a bright stain.
They will cast out the dead
A sight for Priam’s queen to lament
And her frightened daughters.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“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)

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