{"quotes":[{"text":"It didn't matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world.","author":"Joseph Fink","tags":["relax","terrifying","world"],"id":1550,"author_id":"Joseph+Fink"},{"text":"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.","author":"Salvador Dali","tags":["art","beauty","terrifying "],"id":218931,"author_id":"Salvador+Dali"},{"text":"People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["appearance","facade","fake","false","horrifying","love","materialism","perfect","perfection","relationship","scary","superficial","terrifying"],"id":241014,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["doubt","terrifying","vile"],"id":250636,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.","author":"Simon R. Green","tags":["brave","bravery","courage","coward","cowardice","fear","scared","scary","terrifying"],"id":250855,"author_id":"Simon+R.+Green"},{"text":"Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is. We live orphaned on a tiny rock in the immense vastness of space, with no hint of even the simplest form of life anywhere around us for billions upon billions of miles, alone beyond all imagining. We live locked in our own heads and can never entirely know the experience of another person. Even if we're surrounded by family and friends, we journey into death completely alone.","author":"Michael Finkel","tags":["alone","aloneness","avoid","billions","cope","death","experience","family","feeling","friends","heads","immense","journey","locked","loneliness","miles","modern-life","occasionally","orphaned","person","philosophers","space","surrounded","terrifying","vastness","worthwhile"],"id":298545,"author_id":"Michael+Finkel"},{"text":"Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.","author":"Neal Stephenson","tags":["death","delusion","docile","dying","frightened","funny","happy","jesus","people","population","religion","scared","sleep","story","terrified","terrifying","truth"],"id":321959,"author_id":"Neal+Stephenson"},{"text":"Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["asleep","awake","dream","fantasy","heavenly","nightmare","peaceful","reality","reverse-worlds","society","terrible","terrifying","tribulation","trouble","twists","wishes"],"id":337507,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abilities","ability","apprehensive","death","die","fear","fearful","possibilities","potential","regret","squander","squandered","terrifying","waste","wasted"],"id":338875,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"So I got dressed up kind of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-y goth. As I head out, I say bye to Mum and Dad, and Mum says, ‘You look cool’, just as Dad says, ‘You look terrifying.","author":"Abigail Tarttelin","tags":["fashion","tattoo","terrifying"],"id":348949,"author_id":"Abigail+Tarttelin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}