Quotes About Panic

He needed to keep his fear at bay. A little was good. Kept him sharp. But fear, unchecked, became terror and terror grew into panic and panic created chaos. And then all hell broke loose.

The withdrawal in Afghanistan looked like a ferret fire drill!

I can't believe you're making jokes while I'm freaking out.

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

something inside me seemed to shift and slide, and for a moment I felt nauseous, and panic sent a hot bead rolling down my spine. ... Slowly the nausea gave way to a stifling sensation, as if an invisible caul were being pulled down over my head and shoulders.

Hypervigilant and fear of losing control. You live in a state of readiness for attack. You feel jumpy and are easily startled. You have attacks of sudden fear or panic. You fear losing control.

though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I

here's my advice: get your panic in early! The good thing about panic is that it gives you energy.

I've learned...that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.

Sometimes, this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment and blame. But under the hardness of that armor there is a tenderness of genuine sadness. This is our link with all those who have ever loved.

Forgetting your phone at home, it's always the end of the world.

When I'm home alone and I hear a noise...I completely freeze.

It's your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn't. Home is death.

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

By 2008, the entire banking and home mortgage lending industry had been corrupted by the left. It was hardly a commercial industry anymore; rather, it was a kind of progressive racket. And the racket came to an end when, first by the thousands, and eventually by the millions, the people who lacked the ability to pay back their loans stopped making their loan payments. This caused the panic of 2008, followed by the crash of 2008.

The supermarket shelves have been rearranged. It happened one day without warning. There is agitation and panic in the aisles, dismay in the faces of older shoppers. They walk in a fragmented trance, stop and go, clusters of well-dressed figures frozen in the aisles, trying to figure out the pattern, discern the underlying logic, trying to remember where they'd seen the Cream of Wheat.

Fire," yells someone in a theater. Immediately everyone stampedes toward the exits. What do they do at the exit door? Push. If the door doesn't open, they push harder. But what if the door opens inward and must be pulled, not pushed? Highly anxious, highly focused people are very unlikely to think of pulling.

He hesitated then, anticipating the panic that came when there was nothing left to read. - Guido Brunetti

There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.

For a moment I was disoriented, seized by panic; could a ghost embody itself through wavelengths, electronic dots, a picture tube? What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what really throws you into a panic.

What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?