Quotes About Panic

The final stages of grief. Dellarobia felt an entirely new form of panic as she watched her son love nature so expectantly, wondering if he might be racing toward a future like some complicated sand castle that was crumbling under the tide. She didn't know how scientists bore such knowledge. People had to manage terrible truths.

Finally, in more serious situations, man humor confronts fear and prepares the heart for action. It's a tool for dealing with danger, quieting panic, and calling comrades to prepare to charge. Call it gallows humor. Call it foxhole humor. Wherever it happens, it is how men use the sometimes crass but always funny comment to force a laugh and encourage their brothers-in-arms.

Love and beauty could not be preserved by panic or flight.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

You can't make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in

This is how it ends, he thinks. Strangely, he is not panicked, just a little bit sad. He tells himself to pay attention. If this is death it will only come once, and he doesn't want to miss anything. Like he did when he was alive.

He starts to panic at the prospect, and then gets angry at how unfair it is to have to be scared of anything after you've already died. Isn't that supposed to be one of the perks? N more fear and worrying, no more lugging around all the shit that got tangled up in your mortal coil over the years? That's kind of what he's been counting on.

When you're younger you just take it as a given that things will fall into place on their own. Relationships, family, careers, the whole deal. They might not come as you picture them, but they come in some form. You just never figure that they might not come at all. And then you hit thirty and...shit! You suddenly realize that they're not necessarily coming and you panic.

Algo parecido suele ocurrirles a las personas que desarrollan un trastorno de ansiedad como la agorafobia. Quienes la padecen pueden llegar a sufrir tal angustia a causa del miedo, hasta el punto de no volver a salir de casa. La agorafobia es la consecuencia de un bucle de retroalimentación positiva.

in shock. Then they crept closer to him, shivering as they moved. Lucky gave a few barks and growls of encouragement as he began to guide them toward the thicker tree cover. There might be some risk of falling trees and branches, but it would be much more dangerous to let the Leashed Dogs go on working themselves into their panic out in the open, where any stray lashing

Ray seemed about to say something more when a boom shook the entire shuttle. I felt a rush of panic, thinking we'd just come under attack. Then I realized we'd just broken the sound barrier.

the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.

But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre, and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." With relatively little elaboration,

I knew right then and there, it was the beginning of the end for Milli Vanilli. When my voice got stuck in the computer, and it just kept repeating and repeating, I panicked. I didn't know what to do. I just ran off the stage.

In the panic, I forgot.' 'Forgot what?' 'Conditioner.' 'The paparazzi will know. It'll be all over the papers in the morning.

The next day the stock market crashed. Hemmingway didn't quite understand what it all meant, but from the way the white people in town were running around like chickens without heads, she took it as an omen.

You know men. You confuse 'em, they panic. Much like possum.

When in trouble, when in doubt. Run in circles scream and shout.

I am shit scared. Shit scared of almost everything.

If the world was ending, I think I would grab some Cinnamon Toast Crunch, a bunch of water, and I'd probably just... I'd probably go crazy.

The instinct towards panic, once experienced, cannot be unlearned.