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Quotes About Panic

At the same time the assimilation guards against the dangerous isolation which everyone feels when confronted by an incomprehensible and irrational aspect of his personality. Isolation leads to panic, and that is only too often the beginning of a psychosis.
~ C.G. Jung
How Not to Spend Your Senior Year, Rule #3: No matter how dire things get, do not panic. It will only make a bad situation even worse. Besides, by the time you've reached the hit-the-panic-button stage, it's way too late. Nothing you do will make a difference anyhow. This is a phenomenon known to the ancients as irony. You may be more familiar with the contemporary expression of this concept: Life sucks. Particularly weekends.
~ Cameron Dokey
break out in a sweat.
~ Camilla Lackberg
YOUR FEAR MAY SEEM REAL BUT THE DANGER IS NOT. YOU'RE SAFE. YOU'RE ALL RIGHT. YOU'RE HAVING A PANIC ATTACK.
~ Cammie McGovern
The first thing I did was run. Okay, actually the first thing I did was scream, lose my balance, flail my arms in the air like some kind of uncoordinated bird, then slide down the side of the tree and land on my butt. Then I ran.
~ Gemma Halliday
Panic is the last thing we can afford," Coppelia said. "Panic will have everyone rushing off in different directions to try to 'save the Library.' Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Panic will have everyone rushing off in different directions to try to 'save the Library.' Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.
~ Genevieve Cogman
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
~ George A. Romero
Everybody except for the firebug ran for the staircase. I decided to run too, just so I wouldn't be left out.
~ Ilona Andrews
Conway's eyes went glassy and wide. Panic shivered in his brown irises. He took a jerky step back and threw his arms out to his sides, touching each corpse.
~ Ilona Andrews
What's the difference! It's only stone, wood—nothing living! What matters is survival!" Who cared about the tragedy of their country? Not these people, not the people who were leaving that night. Panic obliterated everything that wasn't animal instinct, involuntary physical reaction. Grab the most valuable things you own in the world and then Ã¢â'¬Â¦!
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Presas del pánico, algunas mujeres soltaban a sus hijos como si fueran molestos paquetes y salían huyendo. Otras los estrechaban contra su cuerpo con tanta fuerza que parecían querer meterlos de nuevo en su seno, como si ése fuera el único refugio seguro.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
I tried deep breathing, but seemed to lose contact with myself between each breath, so that the next one was always an emergency. I began to feel faint.
~ Iris Murdoch
I do. It's a mass psychosis, an unprintable mob panic. Ga-LAX-y, Randu, what do you expect? Here you have a whole culture brought up to a blind, blubbering belief that a folk hero of the past has everything all planned out and is taking care of every little piece of their unprintable lives. The thought-pattern evoked has religious characteristics, and you know what that means.
~ Isaac Asimov
Ever since Alexander went to India, Greek kings used elephants in war, mainly for prestige. They were rarely any use. Unlike horses, they were far too intelligent to risk injury merely at a man's urging. It was easy to panic elephants to hastily retreat, trampling their own army.
~ Isaac Asimov
Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero.
~ Martin Seligman
With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
Everything scares me. I'm very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I really, really don't like zombies.
~ Holly Black
Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with.
~ George A. Romero
I would like to do a horror film with zombies!
~ Liza Soberano
So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.
~ Hunter Tylo
Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
~ Starhawk