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Quotes About Panic

They are frightened of the air.
~ William Golding
He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest toward the open beach.
~ William Golding
Lavoravano dunque con grande energia ed allegria, benché col passar del tempo ci fosse un tantino di panico nell'energia, e d'isterismo nell'allegria.
~ William Golding
It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS! in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran...
~ William Goldman
Tr...ooooo...luv...' Fezzik grabbed onto Inigo in panic and they both pivoted, staring at the man in black, who was silent again. 'True love, he said,' Inigo cried. 'You heard him - true love is what he wants to come back for. That's certainly worthwhile.' 'Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile - true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.
~ William Goldman
The writing is never what takes the most time. It's trying to figure what you're going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene.
~ William Goldman
Something's got you panicked and it's too late. You may be the biggest thing ever to hit this area, but in the long run, you're just two-bit outlaws. I never met a soul more affable than you, Butch, or faster than the Kid, but you're still nothing but a couple of two-bit outlaws on the dodge... —you just want to hide out till it's old times again, but it's over. It's over, don't you get that? It's over and you're both gonna die bloody, and all you can do is choose where.
~ William Goldman
The Thieves Quarter was worse than he remembered. Always, before, Fezzik had been with him, and they made rhymes, and Fezzik was enough to keep any thief away. Inigo moved panicked up the dark streets, desperately afraid.
~ William Goldman
Man flieht nicht, weil man Angst hat, sondern man hat Angst, weil man flieht.
~ William James
But oh what beauty! What speed! A chariot of night in panic flight From Our Royal Proclamation of the rites Of day! And riding out Our procession Of fantasy We slaked an ancient Vestigial greed shriveled by ages of dormancy Till the eyes exhausted by glorious pageantries Returned to rest on that puny Legend of the life-jacket stowed away Of all places under my seat.
~ Chinua Achebe
leaves the body, transcends himself, herself, outside any system of belief. Freedom equals panic because without belief there is no language when you've lost yourself to empathy, a total shut down is the only way back in.
~ Chris Kraus
I..." She clutched at Walter's shirtfront. "I don't know! There was no one! No one!
~ Christa Faust
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee
Choose to trust God and to be at peace. Replace panic with praise and worry with worship.
~ Christie Brinkley
To stave off the panic associated with the absence of a primary object, borderline patients frequently will impulsively engage in behaviors that numb the panic and establish contact with and control over some new object.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
Upon entering therapy, adult children of borderlines are initially reluctant to discuss their childhood experiences. Several patients developed psychosomatic symptoms such as feeling a lump in their throat or experienced panic attacks following sessions during which they discussed their mother.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
In a mounting panic the samnite hefted his rifle and delivered a blast straight to Skullhammer's chest, point blank. Once again, torment and debilitation failed to ensue. 'Well, this is awkward,' said Juno.
~ Christopher Brookmyre
Why can't we kill this panic, or do the other thing and make it mute?
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Seja como for, a questão agora considerada mais importante é como não causar pânico nos mercados e enviar os sinais corretos aos investidores. Algumas vezes, morre-se a rir. Outras vezes, o riso afugenta a dor. Vivemos num período em que as nossas palavras enviam uma mensagem ao Santo Mercado. É possível que ele aprecie o nosso humor. Talvez ele veja nele sinais de recuperação e energia.
~ Leonidas Donskis
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
~ Leslie Banks
I suffer panic attacks, anxiety attacks, seemingly random triggers that immobilise me, render me useless but simultaneously unable to explain myself.
~ Jack Monroe
I think the phone is a really personal device in a lot of ways. If you drop your phone or lose it there's a moment of panic. On the other hand there's a lot of control that users have.
~ Susan Wojcicki
will involuntarily expel the spores in a single explosive death cough. THAT is the moment to panic and leap out of the nearest window--irrespective of which floor you're on, or whether it is open or not.
~ Jasper Fforde
Off the coast lies Vanity Island, and off Vanity lies Fan Fiction. Beyond Fan Fiction is School Essays and beyond that Excuses for Not Doing School Essays. The latter is often the most eloquent, constructed as it is in the white-hot heat of panic, necessity and the desire not to get a detention.
~ Jasper Fforde