Quotes About Panic

I won't make excuses for what I did. The truth is that your whole life can change with one split-second decision, and it doesn't matter if you told yourself you'd never do it or if you stepped into the moment with no intention of doing it. All it takes is for that one second of absolute panic when the solution shines right there in front of you, and you grab it... only to have it turn into ash in your hand. There is no excuse for what I did.

Angst. Fear. Stark, gut-twisting terror. It didn't make for an easy sleep.

Still up for talking about your powers? What you've been feeling?" "Absolutely." Unfortunately, any discussion of my powers led to thoughts of shape-shifting, which led to thoughts of Annie, which led to worry. Worry? Hell, no. Let's call it what it really was. Outright panic.

We have every indication that he died of fright.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

Distill'dAlmost to jelly with the act of fear.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

How was I supposed to know Jesus was brown?" replied Private Daniels with labored breath, dodging mortar explosions. "Blame Caucasian society for that shit, not me! Sunday School told me he looked like bearded Ewan McGregor, not the reanimated corpse of Osama bin Laden floating through the fucking sky! I thought he was coming to get us and I panicked!

Then there was a new epidemic—of fear," said Dr. Sam Okware, Commissioner of Health Services, when I visited him in Kampala a month later. Among Dr. Okware's other duties, he served as chairman of the national Ebola virus task force. "That was the most difficult to contain," he said. "There was a new epidemic—of panic.

Maybe there's a more ominous phrase in the English language than "We need to talk." Perhaps "Michael Corleone says hello." Or maybe "I'm afraid the test results are back." But right now what Laurie just said is enough to send spasms of panic through my gut.

scared out of her wits.

There was no head. What the— "LOOK! SHIT!" Franky's head was making a run for

I turned, ran, fired the shotgun into the air and shouted, "Bomb! There's a bomb in the fountain! Everybody run for your lives! Please don't not panic!

The air in the store was charged with panic—that bottled-up, impotent panic of a crowd that doesn't know how to act on it. Should they riot? Loot the place? Burn it down? Should they stampede out of there? To where? Cinnabon?

Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring. You bodly threw down your challenges and then ran away in a childish panic when someone picked them up...

It's a twisted version of Green Eggs and Ham: I could panic in a train! I could panic on a plane! I could panic on the stairs—I could panic anywhere!

Annabelle is rarely relaxed anymore, not even in her own house. So here, her panic is rising. It's a tsunami of dread and obligation and the knowledge of bathroom use in small places.

es lo que el pánico hace y lo que suele llevar a la perdición a quienes lo padecen: les hace creer que, dentro del mal o el peligro, en él están sin embargo a salvo.

The true fear is the fear of being afraid.

This 'vampire' stuff is to stay right in this room. Until we have the assailant in custody we say nothing about these girls being drained of blood. No more rumors. No reports in the papers," he added, looking directly at me and ignoring my colleague from the opposition press. "The official opinion at this time is that the cause of death is 'undetermined and under investigation'. We don't want to start a panic. It's bad for police operations. It's bad for the people. And it's had for business.

Is someone in my tree?" I fought panic, and through Herculean effort managed to keep my pants dry. "No," I answered. She wasn't fooled.

But as we climbed back up, I had a moment of vertigo despite being in such an enclosed space, a kind of panic for a moment, in which the walls suddenly had a fleshy aspect to them, as if we traveled inside of the gullet of a beast.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. In the dark, the fear of an unexpected touch can mount to panic. Even clothes give insufficient security: it is easy to tear them and pierce through to the naked, smooth, defenceless flesh of the victim.