Famous quotes containing the word terrifying:
“Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“We hold on to hopes for next year every year in western Dakota: hoping that droughts will end; hoping that our crops won’t be hailed out in the few rainstorms that come; hoping that it won’t be too windy on the day we harvest, blowing away five bushels an acre; hoping ... that if we get a fair crop, we’ll be able to get a fair price for it. Sometimes survival is the only blessing that the terrifying angel of the Plains bestows.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)