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)

“Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister, Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.”
—Peter Shaffer (b. 1926)