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Quotes About Panic

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
~ James Longstreet
Feeling the reverberations of my panic, Jack pulled me between his thighs and gathered me against his chest. He held me wordlessly, with infinite patience. "I guess . . . ," I managed to say eventually, "I don't feel all-the-way safe." "Probably because you're not." Jack hooked his fingers at the side of my panties, drawing them down. "But in a few minutes, darlin', you're not going to give a damn." -Ella & Jack
~ Lisa Kleypas
A whirlwind of panic swept through her as Derek stripped off his white shirt. She switched her gaze to the floor, but not before she had seen how large and formidable his body was, his torso heavily muscled, his chest covered with thick black hair. Silvery scars marked his skin, legacies of his life in the rookery. He was a man of vast experience. All that was new and frightening to her was commonplace to him.
~ Lisa Kleypas
never have chosen to have a panic attack on that ordinary morning, riding the elevator up to his office. He certainly wouldn't have chosen the breakdown that followed: the nine days during which he couldn't think of going anywhere without having the panic start all over again.
~ Unknown
The people on the agoraphobia board had been right when they'd claimed that the fear of panic is what really hurts you. If you can just manage to ride it out, you will find yourself on the other side.
~ Unknown
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming
~ Lord Byron
What if everything she most dreaded was happening now?
~ Jill Mansell
Boner, Peanut said. Oh no, Jade said to the parrot. No, no, no...you can't say- Boner Oh G-d Jade panicked. Peanut- Pretty bird, Dell broke in, smiling at the parrot and speaking low and soft. Such a pretty girl, Peanut. Peanut preened under his admiring tone. Pretty Peanut.
~ Jill Shalvis
What's with that?" Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. "Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?
~ Jim Butcher
Okay," I said, fear making my voice weak. This is bad. This is very, very bad." Wish
~ Jim Butcher
What I was thinking was that she must have buggers in her bloomers or a chigger on her figger, or however you say it. It looked to me like something had better be done about it pretty quick, or her pants would start blazing and maybe they'd set the fairgrounds on fire and there'd be a panic with thousands of people getting stomped to death, not to mention the property damage. And I couldn't think of but one way to prevent it.
~ Jim Thompson
Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.
~ Unknown
At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.
~ Milton Berle
I could worry that I'm going to bleed to death, you know, from cutting my finger on a sandwich packet, you know, if I sort of open a sandwich.
~ Charlie Brooker
We're dead," said Wally. "We are cooked! Fried!
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Do not panic! Lord Thistlebottom
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Fear is supremely contagious, and its immediate reaction is to make one try to run away.
~ Primo Levi
Running now. Running blindly, my heart thudding. Running home. Covered in thick, black fur. Running in panic, in shame. In fear.
~ R.L. Stine
Faster, Jerry!" Dr. Shreek instructed, screaming at the top of his lungs. "Faster! The hands are alive! Alive!" "I can't do it!" I cried. "Please!" "Faster! Faster!
~ R.L. Stine
Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out!
~ R.L. Stine
him!" I cried. "Somebody
~ R.L. Stine
And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It's not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn't stop.
~ Rachel Caine
Run, damn you!
~ Rachel Caine