{"quotes":[{"text":"In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasn’t moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make sure it was real. The TV fuzzed grey and white and black and I had a lump in my throat that I couldn’t swallow away. “Rory” I whispered. Clawing out gently beneath the duvet cover, reaching for his hand. But I couldn’t find it. And he didn’t answer.","author":"Kate Chisman","tags":["frightened","frightening","ghost","ghosts","girl","haunted","haunted-house","horror","night","nightmare","nightmares","scary","scream","stalker","stalking","terror"],"id":19037,"author_id":"Kate+Chisman"},{"text":"Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["everything","frightening","helplessness","love","want"],"id":22718,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["consequences","ego","egocentric","fear","fearful","frightened","frightening","greed","narcissism","narcissistic","outcomes","self-centered","self-centeredness","selfish","selfishness"],"id":35238,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The dark places will not be instinctively frightening, true, but isn’t it better that children fear boogeymen than pedophiles? Isn’t it better that libraries are filled to the brim with stories and not only words?","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["boogeymen","dark","fear","frightening","libraries","stories"],"id":53949,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adversity","anxiety","belief","brain","bravery","chimera","cognition","courage","daydreaming","death","dream","facade","failure","fake","fantasy","fear","fearful","foreshadowing","frightening","future","hate","horror","imagination","irrational","irrational-belief","life","life-events","loss","love","make-believe","natural","nightmare","pain","past","poverty","present","psychology","rational","rational-belief","reality","scary","solitude","suffering","supernatural","superstition","terror","torture"],"id":73099,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["barriers","confidence","disillusioned","disillusionment","fear","fearful","frightened","frightening","impossible","misguided","obstacles","possible","self-confidence","self-esteem","standing","stands"],"id":75875,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. But most of all, there is very nearly nothing in the dark; except for little bits here and there, often associated with the light, this infinite receptacle is empty.This picture is strangely frightening. It should be familiar. It is our universe.Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are, as sand, as dust, or less than dust, in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. Nothing! We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s Pensées and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between wo.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["astronomy","blackness","blaise-pascal","depth","endless","enormity","frightening","great","immortal","infinity","light","nothing","pascal","science","silent","space","stars","terror","universe"],"id":78369,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"At least I rescued your poor hot dog.","author":"R.L. Stine","tags":["burn","coming-of-age","disturbing","fire","frightening","funny","ghost","ghoul","gives-me-the-willies","goosebumps","grief","hot-dog","humor","laugh","lonely","lord","madness","nostalgia","pyrokinesis","rescue","savior","scary","sleepaway-camp","spooky","summer-camp","teen","teenage","wiener","wiener-roast"],"id":79771,"author_id":"R.L.+Stine"},{"text":"I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.","author":"Vaslav Nijinsky","tags":["dance","frightening","kill","love","nervous"],"id":99730,"author_id":"Vaslav+Nijinsky"},{"text":"Our sins live with us for eternity, and that is perhaps the most frightening thing of all. - Sims.","author":"Simon Holt","tags":["eternity","frightening","sins"],"id":106375,"author_id":"Simon+Holt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}